A Canadian pro-Palestinian organization is hosting a Wikipedia editing event on October 22, inviting participants to "populate Wikipedia entries honoring martyred Palestinian artists and exposing the Canadian, Zionist backers of genocide."
Jewish Onliner was the first to report on this 'Free Palestine Wiki edit-a-thon,' but it was independently confirmed by The Jerusalem Post.
The group, Artists Against Artwashing (AAA), says the evening will begin with Palestinian short films, followed by a Wikipedia 101 session and hands-on editing.
While anyone can contribute to Wikipedia, organizing editing sessions around a predetermined political objective like 'honoring Palestinian martyrs' risks taking the site away from its formal core policy known as the Neutral Point of View (NPOV).
'That is canvassing [and] they should be blocked'
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger said, "If you are organizing people to take a controversial point of view on Wikipedia, that is canvassing [and] they should be blocked."
Independent investigator WikiBias said, "Wikipedia claims neutrality. Their mission of “remedying the narrative” tells a different story."
Artists Against Artwashing describes itself as a group of "arts workers across so-called-Canada demanding cultural institutions divest from settler colonialism and genocide."
Its main campaign is focused on pressuring arts institutions into cutting ties with the Azrieli Foundation, the charitable counterpart to the Azrieli Group, Israel’s largest real estate company.
AAA held another Wikipedia editing workshop earlier this year, in April, specifically targeting articles associated with the Azrieli Foundation.
According to Wikipedia’s public revision history, changes to the Azrieli Group article were made at 7:30 p.m. Toronto time on April 28, coinciding with the editing workshop.
The user who made the edit - 'Sure-thing-no-problem' - was registered that day, has no user page, and made exactly one edit.
Other accounts made further edits to the page, especially removals, throughout May.
Similar to 'Sure-thing-no-problem,' an account named 'subterra6677' carried out edits on the Azrieli Group and David Azrieli pages only, before being warned in June of edit warring.
Edit warring on Wikipedia occurs when editors repeatedly undo one another’s changes to an article, often over disputed wording, sources, or political framing. Wikipedia’s three-revert rule generally prohibits editors from reverting the same page more than three times within 24 hours, although edit warring can violate policy even before that threshold is reached.
On June 25, subterra6677 received a message from another user noting that the former had made several edits in order to restore a version of Azrieli Group.
"The impulse to repeatedly undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure that you're aware of Wikipedia's edit warring policy. Repeatedly undoing the changes made by other users in a back-and-forth fashion like this is disallowed, even if you feel what you're doing is justifiable," subterra6677 was warned.
Training participants to edit Wikipedia is a relatively common activity in pro-Palestine/anti-Israel spaces.
Hamas-linked organization, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, has run several training sessions teaching Gazans to edit Wikipedia pages about the Israel-Hamas War as part of its “WikiRights” program.
Training covers creating, developing, and updating content
It launched the third edition of the WikiRights project in the Gaza Strip in February 2026. The project targets 12 young Palestinian men and women and provides them with “in-depth training in human rights research and documentation, as well as professional editing on Wikipedia.”
The training covers creating, developing, and updating content and involves using editing and contribution tools in both Arabic and English.
Additionally, the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Center for Technology and Society released a new report Thursday titled Damage Done: Wikipedia Leaves Biased Edits Unchecked Despite Editor Bans, which found that uncorrected past biased edits remain embedded across Wikipedia's most-read pages concerning Israel, Zionism, Hamas, and Jewish history.
This follows an initial investigation released in March 2025 titled Editing for Hate, which documented a coordinated campaign by approximately 30 bad-faith editors to manipulate entries related to Israel, Jewish history, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.