The foundation that runs Wikipedia has received an email from the IT Ministry inquiring about the incident in which the Wikipedia page of Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh was vandalised.
The foundation that runs Wikipedia has received an email from the IT Ministry inquiring about the incident in which the Wikipedia page of Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh was vandalised.
to answer Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajiv Chandrasekhar’s allegations In what the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, said of “deliberate attempts to provoke”, cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s Wikipedia page had been corrected and secured, with only “trusted editors” now allowed to modify it.
whereas Some reports stated That the government had issued a subpoena to Wikipedia officials, the foundation said that none of its officials had been summoned. However, the foundation has received an email from the IT ministry inquiring about the incident. Wikimedia Foundation Said that he or Wikipedia currently has no office in India.
Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s page on Wikipedia The stage was vandalized after a crucial catch was dropped during the Asia Cup India-Pakistan match in Dubai on Sunday. Pakistan won the Super 4 match by five wickets. Arshdeep Singh faced massive trolling on social media after the match, and his Wikipedia page was edited to brand him as “Khalistani”.
In response, Mr Chandrashekhar tweeted that, “No intermediary operating in India can allow this type of misinformation and willful attempts to incite and #userharm – violates our government’s expectation of a secure and reliable internet ”
Wikipedia relies on a large range of volunteer editors to generate and moderate its content, more than 60,000 of whom are in India. The Wikimedia Foundation stated that the rules regarding content are set by these volunteers and that the organization itself plays no role in setting editorial policy.
“Wikipedia is vandalized from time to time, as can any open, online platform. This is a violation of the trust and good faith of our editors and readers, and contrary to the values on which Wikipedia is based. Wikipedia But most vandalism is returned within minutes by bots or editors, as was done in this recent case,” the foundation said in a statement.
In an earlier email interview to The Hindu, Wikimedia Foundation CEO Marianna Iskander stated that Wikipedia was not immune to misinformation, “Our commitment to verification and transparency has protected us from some of these recent trends.”
Ms Iskander said Wikipedia’s method of volunteer-driven content moderation worked because “the site is fundamentally transparent.” “Every decision and every edit on Wikipedia appears on the article’s edit history or on its talk page,” she said.
Wikipedia has over the years faced criticism about the neutrality of its articles, particularly from right-wing organizations and media outlets that claim that articles on the online “encyclopedia” are biased towards the left. In response to these claims, Ms Iskander claimed that research has shown Wikipedia “as the only place on the Internet where people who participate in the editing process become more neutral over time.”
The collaborative editing process “encourages people to consider other perspectives, naturally leading to more neutral articles,” she said.