Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by thegeomaster on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:45AM
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On the bright side, Wikipedia is great for learning about technical subjects because there's rarely (if ever) an agenda associated with that.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by wongarsu on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:22AM
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> because there's rarely (if ever) an agenda associated with that.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. SLS (the upcoming government funded rocket) is mostly a product of politics and lobbying and as such a very political subject. Quantum physics seems like an objective field until we start discussing funding for the next particle accelerator. Discussions about PHP have never been sane, even without Facebook having vested interest one way or the other. The laws of thermodynamics seem largely undisputed until the perpetual motion crowd starts another edit war.
It's easier to determine facts in technical subjects, making the work of good Wikipedia mods easier. But that doesn't mean they are free of agendas or that those agendas don't influence Wikipedia