Wikipedia
Launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia has an impressive 30 million or so articles in around 300 languages.
Hierarchy Of Editors
Wikipedia bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and while that is true, reverting people's edits is really easy, and so is blocking users or IP addresses. Not everyone can do that. Who decides who can and who can't? Only a few hundred editors have this privilege - and it can be revoked if someone's decisions are deemed 'out of line' with the official narrative. Wikipedia is not as radically unbiased and fair as it purports to be, and increasingly reflects the agendas of those with deep pockets who have invested in shaping it to suit their commercial purposes.
Problems with Wikipedia
Main article: WikiSpooks:Problems with Wikipedia
The core problem of Wikipedia is the problem of establishing reliability. It has decided that it depend on "reliable secondary sources such as mainstream media", echoing the pattern of commercially-controlled media the world over. It is therefore inevitable that at least on commercially or politically sensitive topics, Wikipedia tends to display a predictable pattern of symptoms:
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 Bias
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 Censorship
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 Gaps
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 Spin
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 Obfuscation
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See Also
- WikipediaPlus - A tool to supplement Wikipedia with content from alternative websites such as this
- Wikipediocracy - "We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia"
- Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you? - Critical article from The Register
- "When a primary source isn't good enough", discussion about Wikipedia's criteria for admissibility
