Wikipedia Bias

[GURPS]

Then libertarian Jimmy Wales came up with a web-based, crowd-sourced encyclopedia.

Crowd-sourced? A Britannica editor called Wikipedia "a public restroom." But Wales won the battle. Britannica's encyclopedias are no longer printed.

Congratulations to Wales.

But recently I learned that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger now says Wikipedia's political pages have turned into leftist "propaganda."

That's upsetting. Leftists took over the editing?

Sadly, yes. I checked it out.

All editing is done by volunteers. Wales hoped there would be enough diverse political persuasions that biases would be countered by others.

But that's not what's happening.

Wikipedia Bias

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[vraiblonde]

All editing is done by volunteers. Wales hoped there would be enough diverse political persuasions that biases would be countered by others.
But that's not what's happening.

I have tried to correct some of the editorial language and blatant bias on a few Wiki pages and the changes weren't approved. So now I don't bother, and I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

If you look at Wiki citations, they are almost unanimously from Leftist sources including MSNBC and Vox. Yes, Vox is considered a legitimate Wikipedia source. That should tell us all we need to know about Wiki.

 

[Hessian]

Stossell...we need more like him since we lost Breitbart.