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Wikipedia, the interactive Internet encyclopaedia is in an existential crisis. Launched in 2001, the formula was a great success thanks to its editing procedure allowing anyone to contribute in the most non elitarian manner. In the early years contributors reached consensus through fair debates in mutual respect and with regard for rules and etiquette. The rare conflicts were judged by a commission of arbiters. However the fair debates gradually degenerated in wild edit wars where brutal intimidation, tricks and deception became the usual rules of engagement. Today brutal bullies with the moral standards of downtown street gangs rule Wikipedia. Ever more bona fide contributors fly their harassment and WP quality is degenerating fast. Wikipedia suffered a most serious blow last month, when it became victim of a virtual putsch by a group of users organised in the Wikipedia Spam Project. This users’ initiative initially had the declared goal of keeping Wikipedia free from irrelevant or untasteful links and information. But the project soon degenerated in censorship of content the spam fighters disliked. Today only a handful of the original spam fighters are left in the group. A most remarkable coalition of anti-Westeners, anti-Christian fanatics and of bullies sickly enjoying the power of harassing bona fide contributors and vandalising their work now dominate the spam project. Today these spam fighters hold all Wikipedia's strategic positions. They do not only determine which contributions are spam and which are not. They arbitrarily decide which contributors are blocked and which websites are blacklisted. One of their leaders, honoured with the "spam-star" award is this self declared Hebrew communist WP User:El_C . A few days ago he openly claimed full discretion about Wikipedia's blocking policy on the administrators notice board.

The anti-West coalition also controls and frauds the security system and gained full control over the most strategic administator's noticeboard. Messages alarming bona fide administrators about the ongoing putsch were erased within 30 seconds. Even the arbitration procedure is now flawed. The spam fighters obstruct arbitration procedures by simply erasing requests for arbitration even before an arbiter could read them. The fraud and cover-up operations including strictly forbidden erasals on user discussion pages, transformed the democratic Wikipedia experiment into a dictatorship of those most daring to infringe rules and procedures. Ever since the Wikipedia Neutrality project, which was caring for WP’s impartiality was abandoned last February, the road was free for communists and religious fanatics to vandalise and rewrite Wiki's economic and philosophical titles without opposition. The spam fighters rely on strong gang cohesion and have support of anti-West administrators and have ended believing they could do anything. The surprise was great when a Brussels think tank WorkForAll dared to challenge their superior forces and intimidation. WorkForAll staff did not only defend their own well established contributions against the communist vandalism. They fundamentally questioned the spam squad’s modus operandi, and gathered the evidence proving the methods of the spam fighters were incompatible with fair-play, with the 5 pilars Wikipedia is built on and that the spam fighters systematically violated Wikipedia rules, procedures and the concensus principle.

Some of the spam fighters’ methods being qualified crimes as to common law, their behaviour can indeed no longer be tolerated in a state of law. Spreading public slander intended at ruining opponents’ reputation and privacy, their qualified intimidation, and the launch of viruses from the WP sandbox are simply unacceptable. The spam fighters have indeed systematically abused and compromised Wikipedia's reputation as a reliable source to fool search engines and spread false accusations all over the web. They already ruined the reputation and privacy of too many users. Evidence of the complot and is still available deep in WP archives

It is believed the anti-West putsch will mean the end of Wikipedia's impartiality and credibility. It certainly means a serious blow for WP's commercial value. Six years only after its launch, this unique encyclopaedia where users democratically decided the content has reached a stage of existential crisis. Unless a coordinated action of bona fide administrators soon finds a way to stop the putsch and to restore the state of law in the WP community, collapse may soon follow. Unfortunately few administrators realise what is going on beneath the surface, and have not realised yet that the democratic experiment they once believed in, is now under censorship of bullies. In the meantime the anti-Western putsch in their virtual world has the very real world consequence that the most referred to source is now organised to perpetuate a century of socialist fraud and deception. This awkward Wikipedia experience at least learns this lesson for would-be anarchists: Wherever law enforcement fails, the criminals end up ruling the streets

evidence on: http://workforall.net