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Ethereum researcher Emmanuel Awosika posted on X alleging that Wikipedia takes an anti-cryptocurrency stance and that its coverage of Solana in particular is unfair. Awosika's allegations also called into question Molly White's involvement in editing crypto-related articles on the platform.
“[…] People have been complaining about Wikipedia's coverage of the crypto industry, but I didn't take issue with it until someone made a “Wikipedia is doing well” joke about Molly's possible involvement in editing crypto-related articles. I couldn't understand it at all,” Awosika told X.
Awosika mentions Molly White's project. Web3 is progressing wellhas been tracking seemingly questionable happenings in the cryptocurrency industry, which “isn't actually going as well as its proponents would have you believe.”
Ethereum researchers later branded Wikipedia's editorial style as “utter garbage” and went on to say that such reporting frameworks cannot be trusted. The images shared in Awosika's post show historical coverage of Solana, and Wikipedia cites articles from Reuters, The Verge, and Fortune Crypt. His most recent edit on the Solana page is dated March 17, 2024.
“If Wikipedia had been my first source of information, I would never have done the project,” Awosika claimed.
Molly White responded by insisting that while her involvement with Wikipedia is public knowledge, decisions within the organization are made independently and “in the open.”
Awosika claims Wikipedia has a “clear anti-crypto stance” and highlights Wikipedia’s alleged history of refusing to accept crypto donations and failing to report on crypto-related subjects. did. White refuted this claim, pointing out that the Wikimedia Foundation also does not accept livestock donations, but can still “write articles about cows.”
Awosika shared an image of Wikipedia's Solana page detailing the lawsuits, outages, hacks, and suffering from the FTX collapse related to the platform. He wondered if there was more to protocols like Solana than just negative events.
White is a known critic of the crypto industry, writing opinions on disinformation and free and open access values. White recently published an essay in Bloomberg in which he argued that the technology underlying cryptocurrencies “doesn't have much to offer average people in their everyday lives.”
“[…] Rather than you guessing what I've done, feel free to look at how I've been involved. White said he doesn't think it's true that Wikipedia has an “explicit anti-cryptocurrency position.”
Awosika implied that White's involvement with Wikipedia influenced the platform to reject cryptocurrency donations in May 2022, claiming that these are “highly dangerous” and “predatory in nature.”
White noted that her involvement in editing Solana's Wikipedia page was limited to a single grammatical edit to correct a capitalization error in a “non-fungible token.” This equates to her 0.2% of the total edits made to the page.
White said that most information about crypto projects, even large projects like Solana, is limited to industry publications and generally does not exceed Wikipedia's standards for trusted sources. explained. She emphasized that Wikipedia articles are based on what reliable secondary sources say about a topic, rather than what they say about the topic itself.
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