Imagine you’re an information anarchist. You undermine Wikipedia pages by nuking references. A genie has granted you a wish: you can nuke one entire domain. Just one. As a data-driven decision maker (who is also an information anarchist 🤷), which would you pick? A common choice is The Internet Archive. 2.9 million Wikipedia pages reference it. But, you’re sneakier than that. A page isn’t undermined just because some references are gone. It’s undermined when all the references are gone. In that case, the most devastating domain to nuke is Statistics Poland. Over 45,000 Wikipedia pages cite only Statistics Poland as their reference. Or, if you’re particularly fond of the Polish, destroy sports-reference.com. Over 37,000 pages cite it as their only reference. If you prefer hurting scientists, go for biolib.cz - an online encyclopedia of plants, animals, and very importantly, fungi. (But then, you don’t need to nuke it - the “server is experiencing high traffic” quite often.) In any case,…
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