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	===Scots Wikipedia scandal===		===Scots Wikipedia scandal===
	In August 2020, a [[Reddit]] user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or — as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia — even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{Cite web \|last=McDonald \|first=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=The i Paper \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia <!-- sic. --> \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia ~~\|website=The Guardian \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026~~ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/~~usWnt~~ \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=McCarthy \|first=Kieren \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|website=The Register \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260211102214/https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|archive-date=11 Feb 2026}}</ref>		In August 2020, a [[Reddit]] user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or — as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia — even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{Cite web \|last=McDonald \|first=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=The i Paper \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia <!-- sic. --> \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826163024/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=McCarthy \|first=Kieren \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|website=The Register \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260211102214/https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|archive-date=11 Feb 2026}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	===Monopoly===		===Monopoly===
	Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|date=16 October 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019182549/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_forks#Project-level_content_forks \|archive-date=19 Oct 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Tezuka \|first=Shuichi \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|date=11 December 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://~~archive~~.ph/~~jGTzk~~ \|archive-date=~~11 Dec 2023~~}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sato \|first=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|date=13 Sep 2023 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://~~archive~~.ph/~~qpGK0~~ \|archive-date=~~19 Sep 2023~~}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=The Washington Post \|date=19 Apr 2023 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419120558/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-date=19 Apr 2023}}</ref>		Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|date=16 October 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019182549/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_forks#Project-level_content_forks \|archive-date=19 Oct 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Tezuka \|first=Shuichi \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|date=11 December 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260114054827/https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|archive-date=14 Jan 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sato \|first=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|date=13 Sep 2023 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260101232819/https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|archive-date=1 Jan 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=The Washington Post \|date=19 Apr 2023 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419120558/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-date=19 Apr 2023}}</ref>

	Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Beck \|first=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|date=5 Mar 2014 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260202220730/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|archive-date=2 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|url-access=limited \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|date=10 Mar 2021 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709001458/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-date=9 Jul 2024 \|pages=657–669 \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|format=PDF		Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Beck \|first=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|date=5 Mar 2014 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260202220730/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|archive-date=2 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|url-access=limited \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|date=10 Mar 2021 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709001458/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-date=9 Jul 2024 \|pages=657–669 \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|format=PDF

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	Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|date=16 October 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019182549/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_forks#Project-level_content_forks \|archive-date=19 Oct 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Tezuka \|first=Shuichi \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|date=11 December 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/jGTzk \|archive-date=11 Dec 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sato \|first=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|date=13 Sep 2023 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/qpGK0 \|archive-date=19 Sep 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=The Washington Post \|date=19 Apr 2023 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419120558/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-date=19 Apr 2023}}</ref>		Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|date=16 October 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019182549/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_forks#Project-level_content_forks \|archive-date=19 Oct 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Tezuka \|first=Shuichi \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|date=11 December 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/jGTzk \|archive-date=11 Dec 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Sato \|first=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|date=13 Sep 2023 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/qpGK0 \|archive-date=19 Sep 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=The Washington Post \|date=19 Apr 2023 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419120558/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-date=19 Apr 2023}}</ref>

	Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Beck \|first=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|date=5 Mar 2014 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive~~.ph~~/~~4UDZX~~ \|archive-date=~~5 Mar 2014~~}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|url-access=limited \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|date=10 Mar 2021 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709001458/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-date=9 Jul 2024 \|pages=657–669 \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|format=PDF		Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Beck \|first=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|date=5 Mar 2014 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260202220730/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|archive-date=2 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|url-access=limited \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|date=10 Mar 2021 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709001458/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-date=9 Jul 2024 \|pages=657–669 \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|format=PDF
	}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|website=Social Science Research Network \|date=13 Feb 2018 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601232442/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|archive-date=1 Jun 2018 \|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3039505}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Thompson \|first1=Neil \|last2=Flanagan \|first2=Brian \|last3=Richardson \|first3=Edana \|last4=McKenzie \|first4=Brian \|last5=Luo \|first5=Xueyun \|display-authors=2 \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|website=Social Science Research Network \|date=1 Aug 2022 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251120010359/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|archive-date=20 Nov 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among long-termist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250930044527/https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|archive-date=30 Sep 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://~~archive~~.ph/~~e36k7~~ \|archive-date=~~28 Apr 2022~~		}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|website=Social Science Research Network \|date=13 Feb 2018 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601232442/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|archive-date=1 Jun 2018 \|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3039505}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Thompson \|first1=Neil \|last2=Flanagan \|first2=Brian \|last3=Richardson \|first3=Edana \|last4=McKenzie \|first4=Brian \|last5=Luo \|first5=Xueyun \|display-authors=2 \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|website=Social Science Research Network \|date=1 Aug 2022 \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251120010359/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|archive-date=20 Nov 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among long-termist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250930044527/https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|archive-date=30 Sep 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260215212645/https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|archive-date=15 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224161609/https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|archive-date=24 Dec 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260217175117/https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|archive-date=17 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113231855/https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|archive-date=13 Jan 2024}}</ref>
	}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224161609/https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|archive-date=24 Dec 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://~~archive~~.ph/~~X1DdV~~ \|archive-date=~~31 Aug 2025~~}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|author= \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation \|date= \|access-date=21 Nov 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113231855/https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|archive-date=13 Jan 2024}}</ref>

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	===Scots Wikipedia scandal===		===Scots Wikipedia scandal===
	In August 2020, a [[Reddit]] user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or — as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia — even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{Cite web \|last=McDonald \|first=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=The i Paper \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia <!-- sic. --> \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|website=The Guardian \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/usWnt \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=McCarthy \|first=Kieren \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|website=The Register \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://~~archive~~.ph/~~VFpkY~~ \|archive-date=~~26 Aug 2020~~}}</ref>		In August 2020, a [[Reddit]] user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from the English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or — as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia — even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{Cite web \|last=McDonald \|first=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=The i Paper \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia <!-- sic. --> \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|website=The Guardian \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/usWnt \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=McCarthy \|first=Kieren \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|website=The Register \|date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=15 Feb 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260211102214/https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|archive-date=11 Feb 2026}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	===Orangemoody scandal===		===Orangemoody scandal===
	On September 2015, Wikipedia was hit by the Orangemoody blackmail scandal, as it came to light that hundreds of businesses and minor celebrities had faced demands for payment from rogue editors to publish, protect or update Wikipedia articles on them.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/wikipedia-rocked-by-rogue-editors-blackmail-scam-targeting-small-businesses-and-celebrities-10481993.html\|title=Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities\|last=Merrill\|first=Jamie\|work=[[The Independent]]\|date=September 2, 2015\|access-date=September 3, 2017\|archive-date=September 13, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913220528/~~http~~://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/wikipedia-rocked-by-rogue-editors-blackmail-scam-targeting-small-businesses-and-celebrities-10481993.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>		On September 2015, Wikipedia was hit by the Orangemoody blackmail scandal, as it came to light that hundreds of businesses and minor celebrities had faced demands for payment from rogue editors to publish, protect or update Wikipedia articles on them.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/wikipedia-rocked-by-rogue-editors-blackmail-scam-targeting-small-businesses-and-celebrities-10481993.html\|title=Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities\|last=Merrill\|first=Jamie\|work=[[The Independent]]\|date=September 2, 2015\|access-date=September 3, 2017\|archive-date=September 13, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913220528/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/wikipedia-rocked-by-rogue-editors-blackmail-scam-targeting-small-businesses-and-celebrities-10481993.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	===Scots Wikipedia scandal===		===Scots Wikipedia scandal===

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	==Consumer impact summary==		==Consumer impact summary==
	The encyclopedia is a major destination for readers to access information about any given topics, ranging from natural sciences to political fields. Theoretically, the encyclopedia is open for editing by anyone, meaning that readers can become producers and editors at any time.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=McGrady \|first1=Ryan \|title=What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression {{!}} TechPolicy.Press \|url=https://www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks-on-wikipedia-reveal-about-free-expression/ \|~~website~~=~~Tech Policy Press~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en ~~\|date=14 May 2025~~}}</ref>		The encyclopedia is a major destination for readers to access information about any given topics, ranging from natural sciences to political fields. Theoretically, the encyclopedia is open for editing by anyone, meaning that readers can become producers and editors at any time.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=McGrady \|first1=Ryan \|date=14 May 2025 \|title=What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression {{!}} TechPolicy.Press \|url=https://www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks-on-wikipedia-reveal-about-free-expression/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514214522/https://www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks-on-wikipedia-reveal-about-free-expression/ \|archive-date=14 May 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Tech Policy Press \|language=en}}</ref>

	===Monopoly===		===Monopoly===
	Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|~~website~~=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en ~~\|date=16 October 2025~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|~~website~~=~~Quillette~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en ~~\|date=11 December 2023~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Sato \|first1=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|~~website~~=~~The Verge~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|~~date~~=~~13 September 2023~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|~~website~~=~~Washington Post~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en}}</ref>		Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web \|date=16 October 2025 \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251019182549/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_forks#Project-level_content_forks \|archive-date=19 Oct 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Wikipedia \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|date=11 December 2023 \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/jGTzk \|archive-date=11 Dec 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Quillette \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Sato \|first1=Mia \|date=13 September 2023 \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/qpGK0 \|archive-date=19 Sep 2023 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=The Verge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251105030836/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|archive-date=5 Nov 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Washington Post \|language=en}}</ref>

	Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Beck \|first1=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|~~website~~=~~The Atlantic~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en ~~\|date=5 March 2014~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|~~website~~=~~Journal of Economics & Management Strategy~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|pages=657–669 \|language=en \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 ~~\|date=2023~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson, \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley, \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3039505 ~~\|date=13 February 2018~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|~~publisher~~=~~Cambridge University Press~~ \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. ~~\|access-date=21 November 2025~~}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>		Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Beck \|first1=Julie \|date=5 March 2014 \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/4UDZX \|archive-date=5 Mar 2014 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=The Atlantic \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|date=2023 \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709001458/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|archive-date=9 Jul 2024 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|pages=657–669 \|language=en \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson, \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley, \|date=13 February 2018 \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601232442/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|archive-date=1 Jun 2018 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3039505}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251120010359/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|archive-date=20 Nov 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250930044527/https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|archive-date=30 Sep 2025 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/e36k7 \|archive-date=28 Apr 2022 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224161609/https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|archive-date=24 Dec 2024 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/X1DdV \|archive-date=31 Aug 2025 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>

	==Incidents==		==Incidents==
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	===Scots Wikipedia scandal===		===Scots Wikipedia scandal===
	On August 2020, a Reddit user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or – as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia – even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{cite web \|last1=McDonald \|first1=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=inews.co.uk \|access-date=August 26, 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=August 26, 2020 \|language=en \|date=August 26, 2020 \|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|~~website~~=~~[[The Guardian]]~~ \|~~access~~-date=~~August~~ 26, 2020 \|date=August 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=McCarthy \|first1=Kieren \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|~~website~~=~~[[The Register]]~~ \|access-date=August 26, 2020 \|language=en ~~\|date=August 26, 2020~~}}</ref>		On August 2020, a Reddit user publicized that a prolific Scots Wikipedia administrator did not speak the Scots language; tens of thousands of articles were in fact English with eye dialect spellings to suggest a Scottish accent, or word-by-word machine translations of articles from English Wikipedia. Wikimedia users debated recruiting fluent speakers of Scots to repair the articles, reverting all edits from the administrator in question, or – as the latter would entail removing nearly half the articles in the encyclopedia – even deleting and restarting Scots Wikipedia afresh. ''The Guardian'' attributed the problem to systemic issues in Wikipedia culture, suggesting that some administrators are afforded effectively unchecked power based on sheer volume of edits (rather than the quality of their work). Robyn Speer, chief scientist at Luminoso, expressed concern that artificial intelligence corpora which used Wikipedia for language-training data had been corrupted by the pseudo-Scots.<ref name="inews">{{cite web \|last1=McDonald \|first1=Karl \|title=Scots Wikipedia taken over by American teenager who wrote thousands of 'very odd' articles without learning language \|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|website=inews.co.uk \|access-date=August 26, 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826132225/https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689 \|archive-date=August 26, 2020 \|language=en \|date=August 26, 2020 \|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Brooks \|first1=Libby \|last2=Hern \|first2=Alex \|date=August 26, 2020 \|title=Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/usWnt \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=August 26, 2020 \|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=McCarthy \|first1=Kieren \|date=August 26, 2020 \|title=Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles \|url=https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/scots_wikipedia_fake/ \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/VFpkY \|archive-date=26 Aug 2020 \|access-date=August 26, 2020 \|website=[[The Register]] \|language=en}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	'''Wikipedia''' is a digital encyclopedic platform which was founded in 2001 and is currently operated by American non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation.		'''Wikipedia''' is a digital encyclopedic platform which was founded in 2001 and is currently operated by American non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation.

	==Consumer-impact summary==		==Consumer impact summary==
	The encyclopedia is a major destination for ~~consumers/~~readers to access information about any given topics, ranging from natural sciences to political fields. Theoretically, the encyclopedia is open for editing by anyone, meaning that ~~consumers/~~readers can become producers/editors at any time.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=McGrady \|first1=Ryan \|title=What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression {{!}} TechPolicy.Press \|url=https://www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks-on-wikipedia-reveal-about-free-expression/ \|website=Tech Policy Press \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=14 May 2025}}</ref>		The encyclopedia is a major destination for readers to access information about any given topics, ranging from natural sciences to political fields. Theoretically, the encyclopedia is open for editing by anyone, meaning that readers can become producers and editors at any time.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=McGrady \|first1=Ryan \|title=What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression {{!}} TechPolicy.Press \|url=https://www.techpolicy.press/what-attacks-on-wikipedia-reveal-about-free-expression/ \|website=Tech Policy Press \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=14 May 2025}}</ref>

	===Monopoly===		===Monopoly===
	Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=16 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Sato \|first1=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|date=13 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=Washington Post \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en}}</ref>		Although Wikipedia formally enshrines the right to fork contents from them in order to start a new encyclopedia, it has been reported that Wikipedia effectively operated as a ''de facto'' monopoly among online encyclopedias for a long time, and Wikipedia had received privileged positions by various search engines such as [[Google]] on their search results. Social media service [[TikTok]] included similar information from Wikipedia in their search results. Besides that, Wikipedia is one of the top sources for AI chatbots.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Content forks \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PROJFORK \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=16 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Introducing Justapedia \|url=https://quillette.com/2023/12/11/introducing-justapedia/ \|website=Quillette \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=11 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Sato \|first1=Mia \|title=TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results \|url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871880/tiktok-search-engine-wikipedia-snippets-google \|website=The Verge \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|date=13 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Schaul \|first1=Kevin \|last2=Chen \|first2=Szu Yu \|last3=Tiku \|first3=Nitasha \|title=Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/ \|website=Washington Post \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en}}</ref>

	Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Beck \|first1=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|pages=657–669 \|language=en \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson, \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley, \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|doi=10.2139/ \|date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly ~~Aerospace’s~~ Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>		Consequently, Wikipedia's monopoly had generated significant downstream effects where Wikipedia had played crucial roles in shaping medical decisions, economic outcomes, scientific publications, and perhaps judicial rulings.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Beck \|first1=Julie \|title=Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ \|website=The Atlantic \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Hinnosaar \|first1=Marit \|last2=Hinnosaar \|first2=Toomas \|last3=Kummer \|first3=Michael \|last4=Slivko \|first4=Olga \|title=Wikipedia matters \|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jems.12421 \|website=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|pages=657–669 \|language=en \|doi=10.1111/jems.12421 \|date=2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Neil \|first1=Thompson, \|last2=Douglas \|first2=Hanley, \|title=Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505 \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3039505 \|date=13 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning \|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200 \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref> Wikipedia is even included among longtermist knowledge preservation initiatives such as the Arch Mission's The LEO (Low Earth Orbit) library, The Lunar Library I on the failed Beresheet lunar lander, The Lunar Library II on the failed Astrobotic Peregrine lander, The Galactic Legacy Archive on a successful Intuitive Machines moon lander mission, and The Pyramid Library on the successful Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander mission.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The LEO Library: Constellation 1 \|url=https://www.archmission.org/leo-library-1 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=The Lunar Library: Genesis \|url=https://www.archmission.org/spaceil \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Lunar Library II \|url=https://www.archmission.org/lunar-library-2 \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Galactic Legacy Archive \|url=https://www.archmission.org/galactic-legacy-archive \|website=Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth. \|access-date=21 November 2025}}</ref>

	==Incidents==		==Incidents==

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	==Incidents==		==Incidents==
	This is a list of all incidents, especially those related to consumer protection, that this platform is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}\|{{PAGENAME}} category]].		This is a list of all incidents, especially those related to consumer protection, that this platform is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}\|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

	~~==="Name and shame" pages===~~
	On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=7 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=20 October 2025}}</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Archive 6 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports? \|website=Wikipedia \|language=en \|date=15 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ananny \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=3 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101 \|website=Wikipedia \|language=en \|date=21 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Tirgil34 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34 \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=23 September 2024}}</ref> In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Archive 6 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports? \|website=Wikipedia \|language=en \|date=15 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ananny \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=3 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101 \|website=Wikipedia \|language=en \|date=21 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Tirgil34 \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34 \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=23 September 2024}}</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Europeanhematology \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/DEATH TO COVID \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=21 November 2025 \|language=en \|date=4 May 2024}}</ref>

	===Orangemoody scandal===		===Orangemoody scandal===