Wikipedia Co-Founder: 85% Of Sites Influential Editors Are Anonymous

The co-founder of Wikipedia has said that 85% of the most influential accounts on Wikipedia, are anonymous.

Larry Sanger who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago, wrote on X on Sept 30 that following on from his interview on the Tucker Carson show that anonymous for-hire editors shape the narrative on the platform.

“Did you know that 85% of the most influential accounts on Wikipedia—the “Power 62”—are anonymous? We simply don’t know who they are. It’s a fact,” he wrote.

He told the show that Wikipedia contains a “list of perennial sources which serves as an ideologically one sided blacklist of media sources” which was established in 2017. The year US President Trump was inaugurated.

He said that the “blacklist should be abolished.”

Red list means blacklisted, and contains sites like New York Post, The Epoch Times, Fox News and Raw Story. The Green list contains sites like CNN, Pink News and The Guardian.

The Daily Telegraph is green apart from its “transgender topics.”

Senger said he was nailing “Nine Theses to the door of Wikipedia.” The post was shared by X billionaire Elon Musk.

“This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal,” he said.

Part of these included that Wikipedia must “return to genuine neutrality by refusing to take sides on contentious topics, even when one view dominates academia or mainstream media.”

He added that Wikipedia’s “most powerful editors remain overwhelmingly anonymous despite wielding enormous influence over one of the world’s most powerful media platforms. These leaders must be publicly identified for accountability (and given liability insurance).”

The full list is here.

Will this change how you read Wikipedia, now?