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Shlomit Lir

Israeli Researcher

Oct 2, 2026

11:13
Tell us about the case of Iskandar 323, the lone editor as a source of knowledge bias.
11:22
So I thought one interesting way to really follow the line of bias and to understand where it springs from is to take one editor, who was very notorious as a biased editor.
11:39
This is an editor that really can shed light on other editors who work in a similar way.
11:45
He was finally completely banned from Wikipedia because of his bias.
11:50
at the beginning of the year, but until then, he edited for 12 years, close to 12 years, with 25,000 edits, most of them on the topics I mentioned, Israel, the conflict, Jewish history, and about the same amount of edits on talk pages.
12:09
That's where people, editors, negotiate the edits.
12:14
So this is a veteran editor, very, from his writing, highly educated, very knowledgeable, and with a prominent place within the society, community, they call it, of editors.

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27:00
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10:38
Tell us about the case of Iskandar 323, the lone editor as a source of knowledge bias.
10:46
So I thought one interesting way to really follow the line of bias and to understand where it springs from is to take one editor, who was very notorious as a biased editor.
11:03
This is an editor that really can shed light on other editors who work in a similar way.
11:10
He was finally completely banned from Wikipedia because of his bias.
11:15
at the beginning of the year, but until then, he edited for 12 years, close to 12 years, with 25,000 edits, most of them on the topics I mentioned, Israel, the conflict, Jewish history, and about the same amount of edits on talk pages.
11:34
That's where people, editors, negotiate the edits.
11:38
So this is a veteran editor, very, from his writing, highly educated, very knowledgeable, and with a prominent place within the society, community, they call it, of editors.

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26:12
So what actions should Wikipedia take to reduce the problems you're talking about? And what about LLMs, large language models, AI? What should their policies be? I think

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