By Josh Greene, CEO, The Mather Group
This month’s Wikipedia Chaos Index score is 66 – the same as last month’s, but for very different reasons.
Though we saw a decline in new page submissions and wait times, there was a noticeable increase in page deletion activities – both nominations and actual deletions.
For the first time since September 2022, overall month-to-month editing activity increased on Wikipedia.
As the backbone of knowledge in the digital world, Wikipedia often finds itself at odds with many different industries and disciplines – including, of course, the many local, regional, national, and global political systems existing in 2023.
In the last month alone, Wikipedia has found a Wisconsin Supreme Court judge trying to whitewash her own page, responded to a letter sent by Durham, Indiana, city attorney trying to publicly identify users editing local politician pages, and was fined by the Russian government for its refusal to delete specific Ukraine-related content from its platform.
This, of course, all occurring while the existential war on the Barbenheimer Talk page raged on – a prescient reminder that Wikipedia, even in an age of misinformation and AI-generated content, remains at both the forefront of culture, and as the foundation for the global pursuit of free speech and shared knowledge.
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(NOTE: The Chaos Index is a proprietary metric of The Mather Group for measuring turbulence throughout Wikipedia and tracking the community’s current sentiment towards corporate-related pages. The index measures community actions such as editing frequency, content deletion, message board posts, and many other activities that contribute to unstable corporate page environments.)
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