23-01-2015 15:49 via feeds.theguardian.com

Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles

Online encyclopedia’s highest court rules on more than 10 editors deemed to be breaking the site’s rules amid Gamergate controversyWikipedia’s arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has banned five editors from making corrections to articles about feminism, in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the “Gamergate controversy”.The editors, who were all actively attempting to prevent the article from being rewritten with a pro-Gamergate slant,
Read more »