The science of Wikipedia flamewars [The Washington Post]

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"Five of the 10 most controversial pages in the Spanish language Wikipedia are about football clubs, F.C. Universitatea Craiova is the most controversial page in the Romanian language Wikipedia, and Beitar Jerusalem F.C. also makes the list in Hebrew. Those debates seem more manageable than arguments over the Hungarian far right, former Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet, and Jesus, each the subject of multiple persistent controversies, or George W. Bush, anarchism, and Muhammad, the three most controversial pages in English.
Indeed, if you’re worried about our society’s ability to reach agreement on what to do about climate change, you should take comfort in the fact that at least in the English-language Wikipedia, the article on global warming is not as controversial as the list of World Wrestling Entertainment personnel."

The science of Wikipedia flamewars