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Who moderates wikipedia?



Unpaid contributors who care a lot about maintaining the quality of articles (and spend a lot of time doing so).


Editors, controlled by a (mostly benevolent) centralized authority


I really don't think that is the case, but I'm interested to hear why you think it is. In my understanding the community is not controlled by a central authority.


The rules for how Wikipedia is edited are ultimately set by the people who run Wikimedia. They have the final say. It's a centralized service (there is a single Wikipedia at a singular domain, being the sole source of truth).

In the context of this discussion, there is no such notion of a federation of wikis on various hosts contributing to the content. There's obviously no decentralization of Wikipedia.

Wikimedia is therefore the centralized authority.




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