# ‘A difficult line’: meet the editors tackling Wikipedia’s arms trade pages

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-10-21T05:00:05+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/a-difficult-line-meet-the-editors-tackling-wikipedias-arms-trade-pages
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/a-difficult-line-meet-the-editors-tackling-wikipedia-s-arms-trade-page-a8e049/

Volunteers and new recruits come together for ‘wikithon’ to put more detail about industry into public domain “Anyone can edit Wikipedia,” the adage goes. But, it turns out, a relatively small number actually do. What is worthy of a digital page in the world’s largest and most-read encyclopedia is decided by roughly 270,000 active volunteers, enthusiasts who populate the online resource with infor

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