Thread by @tdadler

NEW, by me:
Wikipedia’s War on #GamerGate Set the Site’s Tone for the Trump Era

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This piece sums up a longer piece, essentially a tell-all book at this point, which I have been writing up over the past four years about the #GamerGate dispute on Wikipedia:

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In the introduction, I talk about myself and the #GamerGate dispute a little with a few quips about the false narrative spread about the case:

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Part 1 lays out how the false narrative about the #GamerGate ArbCom case on Wikipedia was propagated through the media and how the widely misreported case really came about:

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Second part of the #GamerGate piece gets into the “Five Horsemen of Wikibias” and their bad history on the site, as contrasted with their favorable media portrayal:

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Administrators who protected the horsemen and other opponents of #GamerGate are discussed in part 3 along with their past misconduct:

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Members of Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee who protected these admins and the horsemen, while exhibiting a strong bias against #GamerGate are the subject of part 4:

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In part 5, I write about the immediate aftermath of the #GamerGate ArbCom case and the heavy involvement of one Mark Bernstein in the subsequent shenanigans:

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What happened with the “Five Horsemen of Wikibias” after the #GamerGate ArbCom in the months following the case is discussed in part 6:

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The Administrators who protected #GamerGate opponents did not all do well in those following months either and that is what part 7 is about:

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Effectively, a crackdown happened to help the anti-GamerGate side due to persistence of the #GamerGate dispute on Wikipedia. Part 8 covers those actions and what lead to them:

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One year after the #GamerGate Arbcom case, things weren’t looking much better and that is the subject of part 9:

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After getting on ArbCom one of the admins opposed to #GamerGate had a serious fall from grace, which descended into trying to harass a journalist out of his job in part 10:

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No failings of #GamerGate opponents stopped their gains and the slanting of Wikipedia’s coverage of GamerGate even further to the anti-GamerGate side as covered in part 11:

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#GamerGate has been smeared for five years on Wikipedia and it is only getting worse with no sign of real improvement. Part 12 talks about the decline in both quality and neutrality:

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In conclusion, the #WikiMassacre shows themes and conflicts that typified #GamerGate and includes some of the same players. It even came with a false “misogyny” narrative:

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Appendices in the #GamerGate piece detail relevant aspects, such as editors suppressing reliably-sourced criticism of Anita Sarkeesian and her YouTube videos on Wikipedia:

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Several #GamerGate opponents negatively edited Breitbart’s Wikipedia page during the dispute as they pointed to that same page as proving Breitbart was not reliable:

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This appendix analyzes the editing history of five accounts to show how they were editing for the sole purpose of pushing an agenda against #GamerGate:

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Criticizing an editor running for adminship got me banned three months from Wikipedia by an admin I criticized in the #GamerGate case. My criticism proved warranted:

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You can review many of the sanctions opponents of #GamerGate received both before and after the GamerGate ArbCom case in this appendix:

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I created a press kit to identify some of the most interest details and give some information about myself:

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