Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Pro-Hamas Wikipedia Collaboration Site Covers Its Tracks

 

Pro-Hamas operatives 'celebrate' being uncovered—shortly before covering their tracks

After my blog post "How Pro-Hamas Operatives Collaborate to Rig Wikipedia" appeared on Aug. 30, there was a predictable period of "Baghdad Bob"-type bravado among the subjects of the article. 

"Useful and moderately well researched," said one pro-Hamas user on the Discord.com "Wikipedia collaboration" board, which is used to coordinate anti-Israel editing on Wikipedia. Another, "Ashar," bragged about knowing a fine point of Wikipedia editing that stumped me (and would stump most Wikipedia editors) which is why I could get a previous version of a page that had been deleted. 

I still don't know. But Ashar does. That's because Ashar is obviously a longtime Wikipedia editor, as are almost all of the pro-Hamas Wikipedia editors profiled on this blog. They've been around for years, "owning" articles that they want to control, intimidating and bullying other editors and administrators.

The Discord site is strictly against Wikipedia rules, which of course do not apply to pro-Hamas Wikipedians any more than campus rules apply to the pro-Hamas rioters at universities. By engaging in such offsite coordination, they seek to pepper Wikipedia with pro-Hamas propaganda, and rig discussions that govern the editing and sourcing of articles, such as the "reliable sources" discussion that notoriously denigrated the ADL

The "resident expert" of the offsite collaboration channel, "Ïvana," began covering her tracks, deleting her posts, but that was only the beginning of the belated coverup.

"Pbiggar," coordinator of the "Techs for Palestine" Discord channel, which includes the Wikipedia collaboration site, posted as follows: "I read the article and have to say I wasn't aware the Wikipedia project was doing so well! Very informative, and congrats to all involved!" But then he added: "I guess we'll have to reconvene this a bit more privately—will check with leaders to figure out the next steps."

Oh really? "Leaders"? "Pbiggar" is described in his profile as "founder" and "project leader" of the "Tech for Palestine" Discord channel. Who does he report to? Whoever they are, they gave him a directive: close off the Wikipedia Collaboration channel to public view. He proceeded to do just that a few hours ago:



Note the excuse: "doxing." According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, "Dox" means "to publish private information about someone on the internet, without their permission and in a way that reveals their name, where they live, etc." There has been no doxing in this blog. As they have done with other words in the English language such as "massacre," which they have re-defined to mean "anything Israel does," Wikipedia's pro-Hamas operatives have redefined "dox" to mean "describing what we do."

The "leaders" to whom "pbiggar" reports don't want the outside world, and especially Wikipedia's timid, avoidant "administrators" and "arbitrators," to know what they do. But it's too late.  

Here's a partial list of the users who participated in the Discord Wikipedia channel:

discord username: samerbhh_83208



discord username: ivana_0808


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rw29014life 
discord username: artemisbow99

discord username: hadyawaqfi8150

discord username: tbd



discord username: ummahrican

discord username: tbd


discord username: shushugah


I guess I should feel flattered that they covered their tracks after my blog, since I did not "break the news" of the existence of the Discord channel. Jewish Insider, a respected newsletter, did that in June.

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