Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

Episode 199: Shlomit Lir


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🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Shlomit Lir is a writer, editor, and researcher at the University of Haifa, specializing in the politics of knowledge. Since 2024, she has been a public critic of Wikipedia, especially relating to its coverage of Israel.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

  • "The Bias Against Israel on Wikipedia" (2024 report for the World Jewish Congress)
  • 2025 X post by Shlomit about then-candidate for the WMF Board of Trustees Ravan al-Taie
  • "Smear Campaign Against Ravan, Wikimedia Foundation BoT Candidate" (response post by several Wikimedians)
  • Larry Sanger's "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"
  • "How Wikipedia's Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative" (2024 Pirate Wires article by Ashley Rindsberg)
  • "Manipulated History" (2025 document for the World Jewish Congress)
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