Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust

Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira

doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939

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“…Colavizza ( 2020 ) determines that Wikipedia represents the topical structure of COVID literature in a proportionate manner, based on several clustering and topic modeling approaches. However, Grabowski and Klein ( 2023 ), in a recent paper that has also been discussed in the general media, claim a distortion of historical facts by a group of biased editors. Several approaches focus on predictors for referencing patterns or correlations between citations from Wikipedia and established science metrics: Teplitskiy et al ( 2015 , 2017 ) name the impact factor and open access as the most significant predictors for citations to journals on Wikipedia.…”

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A diachronic perspective on citation latency in Wikipedia articles on CRISPR/Cas-9: an exploratory case study

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This paper analyzes Wikipedia’s representation of the Nobel Prize winning CRISPR/Cas9 technology, a method for gene editing. We propose and evaluate different heuristics to match publications from several publication corpora against Wikipedia’s central article on CRISPR and against the complete Wikipedia revision history in order to retrieve further Wikipedia articles relevant to the topic and to analyze Wikipedia’s referencing patterns. We explore to what extent the selection of referenced literature of Wikipedia’s central article on CRISPR adheres to scientific standards and inner-scientific perspectives by assessing its overlap with (1) the Web of Science (WoS) database, (2) a WoS-based field-delineated corpus, (3) highly-cited publications within this corpus, and (4) publications referenced by field-specific reviews. We develop a diachronic perspective on citation latency and compare the delays with which publications are cited in relevant Wikipedia articles to the citation dynamics of these publications over time. Our results confirm that a combination of verbatim searches by title, DOI, and PMID is sufficient and cannot be improved significantly by more elaborate search heuristics. We show that Wikipedia references a substantial amount of publications that are recognized by experts and highly cited, but that Wikipedia also cites less visible literature, and, to a certain degree, even not strictly scientific literature. Delays in occurrence on Wikipedia compared to the publication years show (most pronounced in case of the central CRISPR article) a dependence on the dynamics of both the field and the editor’s reaction to it in terms of activity.

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A diachronic perspective on citation latency in Wikipedia articles on CRISPR/Cas-9: an exploratory case study

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“…A recent U.S. federal court case where Chat GPT generated fictious legal citations led to lawyers being fined by the judge (Mangan, 2023). Similar distortions have plagued Wikipedia (Grabowski and Klein, 2023;Yourbrainonporn.com, 2021c).…”

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Creating disinformation: Archiving fake links on the Wayback Machine viewed through the lens of routine activity theory

Mead

2023

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This case study uses routine activity theory to contextualise the method used by an external bad actor to create fake links within the Internet Archive for the Web site Yourbrainonporn.com. It then discusses the social media campaign which occurred two years later using screenshots of these fake links accessed via the Wayback Machine to defame the site owner. An organised disinformation campaign on social media began attacking the site owner of Yourbrainonporn.com (a pornography recovery Web site) for allegedly, accidentally, posting evidence on his own site of him searching for and hosting hardcore pornography. In fact, the list of purportedly incriminating links did not point to any content, but the defamers’ intentions seemed to have always been to set up a smear campaign against a particular site and its author. Options are discussed for the Internet Archive to provide improved guardianship and to educate the public to minimise harm from this type of social media attack based on screenshots of fake URLs.

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“…by sticking to the typical “broadcast” model of communication; Walden 2022a, 33) or are disproportionately influenced by a few influential individuals (e.g. as in the case of Wikipedia; Grabowski and Klein 2023; Kaprāns 2016). However, connectivity still enables more possibilities for discussing and challenging established memory narratives that lead to bifurcation between institutional and public memory cultures (Walden and Makhortykh 2023).…”

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Shall the robots remember? Conceptualising the role of non-human agents in digital memory communication

Makhortykh

2024

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The rise of digital technology has led to fundamental changes in how individual and collective perspectives on the past are transmitted and engaged. An immediate implication of these changes relates to the shift away from human communication as a single form of communication about memory towards multiple models which involve non-human (or robotic) agents. These non-human agents are primarily constituted by artificial intelligence (AI)-driven systems, such as search engines and conversational agents, which retrieve information about the past for human users and are increasingly used to generate memory-related content. To account for the growing complexity of memory-related digital communication, the article introduces three agency-based models of such communication: (1) human-to-human; (2) human-to-robot; and (3) robot-to-robot. It discusses examples of communication practices enabled by these models and scrutinises their implications for individual and collective memory transmission. The article concludes by outlining several directions for memory communication research increasingly shaped by non-human agents.

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Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust

Cited by 13 publications

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A diachronic perspective on citation latency in Wikipedia articles on CRISPR/Cas-9: an exploratory case study

A diachronic perspective on citation latency in Wikipedia articles on CRISPR/Cas-9: an exploratory case study

Creating disinformation: Archiving fake links on the Wayback Machine viewed through the lens of routine activity theory

Shall the robots remember? Conceptualising the role of non-human agents in digital memory communication

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