12-01-2021, 08:40 AM
@"BIAD"
Most of the time, it isn't the "writers" (wikipedia calls them "editors"). It is that selected articles get taken over by the Wiki management's fair-haired ideologues who then harass and often ban any ordinary editor who tries to introduce unwelcome viewpoints in the article. Besides that, political, religious, and commercial interests of various sorts use the English-language Wikipedia in particular as a platform for propaganda and marketing.
An interesting experiment with Wikipedia is to take an article in English and then go to a foreign language Wiki article on the same topic. Translate the foreign language article. Often, it is completely different. Wikipedia is no universal encyclopedia. Even the standards for who gets to make edits vary from language version to language version. More like a Tower of Babble.
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Quote:those who write Wikipedia distort information when it suits them
Most of the time, it isn't the "writers" (wikipedia calls them "editors"). It is that selected articles get taken over by the Wiki management's fair-haired ideologues who then harass and often ban any ordinary editor who tries to introduce unwelcome viewpoints in the article. Besides that, political, religious, and commercial interests of various sorts use the English-language Wikipedia in particular as a platform for propaganda and marketing.
An interesting experiment with Wikipedia is to take an article in English and then go to a foreign language Wiki article on the same topic. Translate the foreign language article. Often, it is completely different. Wikipedia is no universal encyclopedia. Even the standards for who gets to make edits vary from language version to language version. More like a Tower of Babble.
Cheers
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