Volunteers Hold Wikithons to Improve Arms Industry Pages
Agnes Cameron and Hannah Cobb lead collective editing events in London and Manchester to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of the global military-industrial complex.
Volunteers in London and Manchester are conducting wikithons to improve the quality and organization of Wikipedia pages concerning the global arms industry. Co-founded by Agnes Cameron and Hannah Cobb through the n-Space programme at Somerset House Studios, these collective editing events target pages on entities including Palantir, Project Maven, and Nitro-Chem.
The organizers aim to broaden public knowledge of geopolitics and the military-industrial complex by synthesizing publicly available information into the encyclopedia. While the editors acknowledge the political nature of their interests, they emphasize adherence to Wikipedia's standards of neutrality and factual accuracy to avoid being labeled as a campaigning effort.
Cameron intends to eventually formalize the group into a WikiProject, potentially under the WikiProject Military history, to ensure sustainable improvements to the platform's coverage of arms manufacturers and sellers.
