Wikipedia banning two anti-Israel editors a ‘significant step,’ expert says

Wikipedia banning two anti-Israel editors a ‘significant step,’ expert says

Wikipedia’s take on a supreme court, its arbitration committee, has opted in recent months to ban two anti-Israel editors indefinitely—a “significant step” for the crowdsourced encyclopedia, which is one of the most visited websites on the internet, according to Shlomit Lir, a University of Haifa researcher, who specializes in Wikipedia.The two are “veteran and highly influential,” Lir told JNS.The committee’s decision “should be understood not …