The editing battles on this began after an Austrian teenager launched the Wikipedia entry.
If you ask Google “what is OK Boomer?”, Google would answer back that it is “an ageist catchphrase and internet meme that gained popularity throughout 2019, used to dismiss or mock attitudes stereotypically attributed to the baby boomer generation.”
Google’s answer comes from the then-current English language version of the OK Boomer Wikipedia page, which means that “the knowledge from the online encyclopedia branched out to the wider net”. It also helps explain why the editors behind the Wikipedia article feel so strongly about its content.
The online encyclopedia has been known in the past for its infamous edit warring, where editors delete changes and try to hijack a page to slant the encyclopedic summaries toward a subjective point of view. It seemed worth investigating the OK Boomer Wikipedia page to see if there were in fact signs of a fully digital, young-versus-old bloodbath.
But on his investigation, Stephen Harrison found an entirely different thing.
[It] was a generally respectful editorial process and a few young people who were contributing in good faith.
Find out more about this over at Slate.
This is wholesome.
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