The Heritage Foundation plans to target Wikipedia editors using tactics like analysis of user data and social engineering, claiming some are abusing their anonymous positions. This plan threatens the privacy of editors who often use pseudonyms to avoid harassment. Wikipedia's policies prohibit revealing editor identities, but tensions remain high over the portrayal of contentious subjects like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite Wikipedia's claims of neutrality, various factions accuse each other of bias, complicating the editing landscape and the community's trust in its governance and content management.
Heritage aims to identify and target Wikipedia editors through analysis and social-engineering tactics, perceiving them as abusing their position on controversial topics.
Revealing personal information of Wikipedia editors is considered doxing and leads to harassment, which Wikipedia strictly prohibits despite ongoing tensions in editing certain topics.
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