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</a></h2></div> <h1 class="title post-title is-serif is-1-desktop is-3"> The Edit Wars </h1> <p class="short-desc is-roboto"> How Wikipedia earned the ire of the Hindu Right </p></div> <div class="author-details is-size-7 is-montserrat"><div class="w"><div class="authors-wrap"><span class="main-authors"> <div class="authors is-montserrat"><div class="author"><span itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a href="/web/20201228210419/https://caravanmagazine.in/author/24822">Nishant Kauntia </a> <meta itemprop="sameAs" content="https://caravanmagazine.in/author/24822"> <meta itemprop="name" content="Nishant Kauntia "> </span></div></div></span> <div class="contributors-wrap"><div class="contribution"><span class="c-t">Illustrations by</span> <div class="contributors is-montserrat"><div class="author"><a href="/web/20201228210419/https://caravanmagazine.in/author/8641">Pia Alizé Hazarika</a></div></div></div></div></div> <span class="date">30 November 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//web.archive.org/web/20201228210419im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8yi_O83QTqTeTQjL8U1enHu4hLxwb671q1vHovjnka1Oa87l-VQBDsJw02Hb4sh1hT9uTbR2mlsbfc8XK60PuVhexw=s1500?nocheck=gplus 1500w, //web.archive.org/web/20201228210419im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8yi_O83QTqTeTQjL8U1enHu4hLxwb671q1vHovjnka1Oa87l-VQBDsJw02Hb4sh1hT9uTbR2mlsbfc8XK60PuVhexw=s1900?nocheck=gplus 1900w" class="type:primaryImage"></div></div> <figcaption><span class="caption is-roboto"></span>  </figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="caption-content container is-roboto"><figcaption><span class="caption"></span>  </figcaption></div> </header> <div class="container"><div class="columns"><div class="column content-container"><article id="single-article" class="post is-long-horizontal"><div class="content"><div class="w is-calluna"> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="t">   <p><strong>“IT MIGHT BE AWKWARD,</strong> but please don’t scroll past this.” In July this year, the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched a donation campaign in India. A banner pinned at the top of every Wikipedia article noted that fewer than two percent of users made donations and that, if those who saw the banner would contribute Rs 150 each, the online encyclopedia “could keep thriving for years.”</p><p>For an open-source collaborative website that does not carry any advertising, the appeal was business as usual. The Wikimedia Foundation relies on contributions to maintain the website and its servers, as well as to pay its employees. According to the foundation’s financial statement for 2018–19, it raised nearly $111 million in donations and contributions, accounting for over ninety percent of its total revenue in the fiscal year. The campaign, however, was met with stiff opposition from right-wing figures in India. Accusing the website of being “full of editors who are biased, anti-Hindu and anti-India,” the columnist Shefali Vaidya tweeted to her half a million followers, “#StopFundingHate do NOT donate to @Wikipedia or @PetaIndia. They use YOUR money against you—to peddle Hindu hatred.”</p><p>“Wikipedia has published many questionable statements about Hindu writers, leaders, causes and historical issues,” David Frawley, the founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, tweeted, adding that it was “not an unbiased forum. Hindus should protest against its anti-Hindu views.” The filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeted that “Wikipedia has #UrbanNaxals editors.” The author Rajiv Malhotra, who claimed to have first criticised Wikipedia during the 1990s—he clarified, after people made fun of him by pointing out the encyclopedia was founded in 2001, that he meant its predecessors in the collaborative-encyclopedia space—argued that it stood for the gamification, rather than the democratisation, of knowledge. “Those with better gaming skills overrule others with lower privilege level,” he tweeted, comparing Wikipedia’s hierarchy of editors to a caste system.</p>  <div><div class="subscribe-plan"><a href="/web/20201228210419/https://caravanmagazine.in/subscribe?ref=7148"><div class="paywall_wrapper"><h4 class="title is-4"> Get unlimited access <br> to India's finest Magazine <br> of Politics and Culture </h4> <img width="495" height="306" data-src="//web.archive.org/web/20201228210419/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Nu3M93Xu31UoEzh6Qj5oNz-G2Gmcfxdx3XqIBuRWgqBe4QIpDW-VMejn3uZuQ0hfgNGKaTDPAWd_Ag8w1lgkIUmwC5eRxG6-nah9wHg=s500" class="lazyload blur-up"> <div class="plan_list is-roboto"><div class="item"> Print + Digital Plans at <b>₹ 1800/year</b></div> <div class="item"> Digital Plans at <b>₹ 1200/year</b></div></div> <button class="button is-primary is-montserrat"> Subscribe </button></div></a> <p class="hint is-roboto"> Already a subscriber? 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A banner pinned at the top of every Wikipedia article noted that fewer than two percent of users made donations and that, if those who saw the banner would contribute Rs 150 each, the online encyclopedia “could keep thriving for years.”",type:c}]},{type:h,content:[{text:"For an open-source collaborative website that does not carry any advertising, the appeal was business as usual. The Wikimedia Foundation relies on contributions to maintain the website and its servers, as well as to pay its employees. According to the foundation’s financial statement for 2018–19, it raised nearly $111 million in donations and contributions, accounting for over ninety percent of its total revenue in the fiscal year. The campaign, however, was met with stiff opposition from right-wing figures in India. Accusing the website of being “full of editors who are biased, anti-Hindu and anti-India,” the columnist Shefali Vaidya tweeted to her half a million followers, “#StopFundingHate do NOT donate to @Wikipedia or @PetaIndia. They use YOUR money against you—to peddle Hindu hatred.”",type:c}]},{type:h,content:[{text:"“Wikipedia has published many questionable statements about Hindu writers, leaders, causes and historical issues,” David Frawley, the founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, tweeted, adding that it was “not an unbiased forum. Hindus should protest against its anti-Hindu views.” The filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeted that “Wikipedia has #UrbanNaxals editors.” The author Rajiv Malhotra, who claimed to have first criticised Wikipedia during the 1990s—he clarified, after people made fun of him by pointing out the encyclopedia was founded in 2001, that he meant its predecessors in the collaborative-encyclopedia space—argued that it stood for the gamification, rather than the democratisation, of knowledge. “Those with better gaming skills overrule others with lower privilege level,” he tweeted, comparing Wikipedia’s hierarchy of editors to a caste system.",type:c}]}]},wpId:a,writtenAt:q,createdAt:"2020-11-30T19:20:10.874Z",updatedAt:q,isPremium:l,isWeb:b,isPublished:d,lang:r,seoTitle:k,keywords:[s,"Delhi Riots","OpIndia","Nupur J Sharma","Jimmy Wales","Larry Sanger"],design:a,preAuthor:a,freeUntil:a,hasNotified:e,hasAds:d,theme:{id:g,name:i,slug:t},topic:{id:m,name:"Reportage",slug:"reportage"},themes:[{id:g,name:i,slug:t,parentId:a,priority:29,lang:b,createdAt:u,updatedAt:u,hiName:"मीडिया"}],coverPhoto:{id:f,title:"Opener_edit-wars_spread_final_web.jpg",src:"caravan-b\u002Fimg\u002Fx1drt.jpg",path:a,data:{h:n,w:o,url:p},createdAt:v,updatedAt:v},authors:[{id:"24822",name:"Nishant Kauntia ",info:{data:[{text:"is a writer and freelance journalist based in Delhi.",type:c}]}}],tags:[{id:"2925",name:s,slug:"wikipedia"},{id:"1715",name:"Hindu right",slug:"hindu-right"},{id:"7475",name:"Delhi Violence",slug:"delhi-violence"}],contributions:[{id:"104",articleId:j,title:"Illustrations by",users:[{id:"8641",name:"Pia Alizé Hazarika",info:{data:[{text:"is an an illustrator and designer whose work has been published by Penguin India, Captain Bijli Comics and others. 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