Claims of corruption

Revision as of 18:39, 4 September 2004 by 142.177.103.75 (talk) (leaving only concerns with officers visible, moving developer issues to Talk:, noting attempt to hide allegations without answering them, noting link transit progress)

Wikipedia is the largest GFDL corpus access provider. It was usurped by Wikimedia in 2003. Since then it has been alleged to have become increasingly corrupt and unresponsive to contributors and users. Evidence of Wikimedia corruption includes:

structural corruption

recently dealt with

  • withholding of information regarding link transit at Wikipedia which would be very useful to editors, but also quite profitable for a search engine like Bomis; several attempts to raise this issue have been suppressed; finally in September 2004 some code emerged to start to deal with it.

individual corruption by officers

For issues with developers and others without official status, see Talk:alleged Wikimedia corruption.