![]() That milestone has loomed large over the past year, lending additional significance to milestones and benchmarks recently passed. Wikipedia approaches its 20th anniversaryĬountless retrospective pieces will surely be published in the coming weeks to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, which I am certain you do not need to look up to know was founded on January 15, 2001. ![]() I hope you’ll read through my list, and then watch or listen to the discussion, which complements the topics covered below.ġ0. This list is informed by the “top ten” discussed on this show, although it is not identical. On Wednesday, December 30, I joined a recording of the Wikipedia Weekly YouTube livestream to discuss the big issues of the year that was. In this installment we’ll do the same again, but with a little something extra. This was a year where ambitious new projects were announced, small-scale tweaks took on larger significance, the relationship between human editors and the software supporting them became more fraught, differences in vision between the community and professional corners of Wikipedia emerged or were reinforced, and the future of the movement simultaneously became both clearer and more contentious.Įvery year since 2010, The Wikipedian has offered its summary of the top ten Wikipedia stories-events, themes, and trends-of the previous year. 2020 gets all the hate now, but can we be so certain that the coming year will be meaningfully different?Ģ020 was also a time of change for Wikipedia, though these shifts occurred almost entirely below the surface: unless you’re an active participant in the Wikimedia movement, much of this list will come as news to you. To date, COVID-19 has killed nearly two million people worldwide, reshaped the global economy, galvanized worldwide protests, and impacted politics, business and culture for years to come-including in ways we can’t yet see. Since March, ubiquitous semi-ironic references to the “Before Times” have served to euphemize the unfathomable. And #CNNBlackmail is the new #GamerGate.It’s no overstatement to say that 2020 was a year where everything changed. As Mike Cernovich says, CNN is the new Gawker. #CNNBlackmail is already trending and the firing of the four members of the KFILE team has already been demanded. I somehow doubt the channers are simply going to take this sort of thing lying down. If I was a CNN employee with any big secret to protect, I'd consider resigning today. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.ĬNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.ĬNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. The apology has since been taken down by the moderators of /The_Donald subreddit.Īfter posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news." I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. What the President's feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. ![]() "I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President's Twitter feed. "The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation," he wrote. On Tuesday, "HanA**holeSolo" posted his apology on the subreddit /The_Donald and deleted all of his other posts. On Monday, KFile attempted to contact the man by email and phone but he did not respond. ![]() The apology came after CNN's KFile identified the man behind "HanA**holeSolo." Using identifying information that "HanA**holeSolo" posted on Reddit, KFile was able to determine key biographical details, to find the man's name using a Facebook search and ultimately corroborate details he had made available on Reddit. Since when is it the job of the news media to report, or not report, the news depending upon whether someone behaves how they want? This public threat issued by CNN to an anonymous meme maker marks an interesting development in so-called "professional journalism". ![]()
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