Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork · HackerPapers discussions

Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork — mentioned by mmooss

Sun, 03 May 2026 19:01:50 GMT

To partly correct myself, among the many reports OP cites and reviews, it directly refers and links to the following: > In a report titled Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork, ... The OP describes and quotes the report for 5 paragraphs. I don't understand the GP's claim that, > I think the article tried to refer to this link https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10663 As I understand from scanning the paper ... That link is to a paper by the same name. I don't understand why the GP says 'tried' - the authors provide a link to the paper and describe it in detail - or why the…

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Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork — mentioned by pet_the_bird

Sat, 02 May 2026 14:10:26 GMT

I think the article tried to refer to this link https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10663 As I understand from scanning the paper, the authors attempt to determine differences between the Russian wikipedia articles and the articles on the Russian fork. They show that articles on the fork that were that differ from RU wikipedia have a significantly higher number of edits on RU wikipedia. The authors suggest that these may be signs of manipulations, however, it may not have affected the quality negatively (as stated in the discussion). I do not find state sponsored activity on Wikipedia unlikely, but I…

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