The emergent problem with Wikipedia is not that 'anyone can edit', but rather, that no one can edit it. It's controlled by a cabal of editors with severe superiority complex. This affects virtually all articles. I will relay my own experience:
I'm a Ph.D. biochemist and I tried to make some edits on niche topics in which I could argue I am the world's leading expert. Within minutes, all of my edits were reversed without explanation by some goon who apparently polices a wide variety of unrelated articles ranging from Tanzanian economic policy to toluene manufacturing. There sad fucks spend hours every day maintaining and expanding their Wikipedia empires and build their "Wikipedia Editing Scores" by torching honest and well-intentioned edits.
I can't imaging what's it's like to try to edit a falsehood on a major article such as about Donald Trump, etc. You're competing against someone who is willing to spend 4-8 hours a day reversing everything you do. To maintain a political article on Wikipedia, you have to compete against an unemployed Democrat with severe TDS.
The emergent problem with Wikipedia is not that 'anyone can edit', but rather, that no one can edit it. It's controlled by a cabal of editors with severe superiority complex. This affects virtually all articles. I will relay my own experience:
I'm a Ph.D. biochemist and I tried to make some edits on niche topics in which I could argue I am the world's leading expert. Within minutes, all of my edits were reversed without explanation by some goon who apparently polices a wide variety of unrelated articles ranging from Tanzanian economic policy to toluene manufacturing. There sad fucks spend hours every day maintaining and expanding their Wikipedia empires and build their "Wikipedia Editing Scores" by torching honest and well-intentioned edits.
I can't imaging what's it's like to try to edit a falsehood on a major article such as about Donald Trump, etc. You're competing against someone who is willing to spend 4-8 hours a day reversing everything you do. To maintain a political article on Wikipedia, you have to compete against an unemployed Democrat with severe TDS.