A campaign against #NPR's new CEO, ex-#Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher, is trying to portray her as "anti-truth" and "anti-First Amendment" by taking quotes out of context from her past talks about Wikimedia. As a longtime Wikipedian, I think I can give a little more context about these statements — but I recognize that the people behind this campaign are, ironically, not looking for the facts.
@molly0xfff Thank you for this incredibly informative post about something that I heard a lot of people talking about but that I didn't really understand. I especially appreciated this being a video because of clips you included. Super helpful.
Wikipedia is about verifiable facts from reliable sources. For Wikipedia, arguing with "The Truth" is not effective. Wikipedians don't write "because it's true" but "because that's what's in this source".
It is painful to see Katherine Maher viciously and widely attacked on Twitter, also for a quote restating how Wikipedia works.
I have worked with @krmaher
We were lucky to have her at Wikipedia, and NPR is lucky to have her.