Wikipedia Drama

Something is rotten in Wikipedia. In fact, there is much that is rotten in Wikipedia. The rottenness is pervasive; from its entrepreneur to to teen system operators the corrupt power structure lays out. Wikipedia is almost everything what it says it is not. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Among them, perhaps the only things that Wikipedia is not are: it is not a paper encyclopedia and it is not censored (vis-à-vis pornography). Wikipedia Process is complex and laborious. Not even half of Wikipedia is encyclopedia. Article discussion pages, user pages user discussion pages, user's fancy pages, project pages, notice boards, portals, projects, templates, user boxes, threatening pages, name calling pages, sandbox, scripts, autographs, elections take larger space than all the articles and larger share of the manpower of the editors. There are tons of policies and guidelines for teens to mull over and spout in the opponent's face. There is still another wonderful policy that annuls all those policies and validates all violations of them. It is known as Ignore all Rules (IRA). Wikipedia regularly witnesses much drama as thousands of users from around the world collaborate or collide. This blog will discuss some interesting drama and some notable things on/in Wikipedia (on the website called en.wikipedia.org and in the actual encyclopedia called Wikipedia.

A classic quote from Wikipedia
In fact, it was said by an Arbitration Committee member. An Arbitration case is the last step in Wikipedia dispute resolution in Wikipedia.

And the pissing contest that the workshop and evidence pages became -- "You suck! "no, you suck!" "no, you're an asshole!" "no, YOU'RE the asshole" -- is hardly making it better, and I've had trouble finding a single contributor to either that seems worth listening to for more than a paragraph. From what I can tell, every single one of you should be blocked for activities not conducive to improving the encyclopedia.

--jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 17:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The arbitration case that turned into a pissing contest involves many Indian editors, including several administrators. All of them are on Wikipedia to push their propaganda related to their ideology of Hindutva. They have also tried to drag some worthy editors into this mess. The name of the case is Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar 2. An Arbitration case involves several steps and pages. Workshop, Evidence, Proposed Decision etc. In the given case you can see workshop, evidence page, and proposed decision by clicking on the respective links.

(more later)