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Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by asdffdsa on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:57AM (#19794626)
To angry self: I dont entirely trust Wikipedia to give an objective/apolitical view of things all the time: there've been times where articles have been noticably influenced by a defacto, anachronistic political (progressive) position. I wouldnt mind having a redundant source of information where the possibility exists of current politics corrupting its articles' integrity
Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by AsyncAwait on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:37AM (#19795915)
> articles have been noticably influenced by a defacto, anachronistic political (progressive) position

I hate it when the right pretends that everyone is biasing everything in terms of a progressive agenda, when that's just not the case, even in Wikipedia's case.

There was the case of Cross doing absolutely right-wing, biased, pro right-wing Israeli governments entries and edits and being protected by Wikipedia editors to do so.

I think what's often gets conflated is that munch of Western society and organizations are socially progressive, sure, but they're very much economically right-leaning, something that rarely gets acknowledged and which makes it difficult for me to have a honest conversation with the other side.

I'd also note that Wikipedia's founder is very much right-leaning, regularly attacking the likes of Corbyn and certainly not holding progressive economics dear.

Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by asdffdsa on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:07PM (#19800548)
Ok, my point still stands then; it's good to have multiple sources of information
Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by AsyncAwait on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:35AM (#19805617)
Sure, I agree with that.
Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by Retra on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @02:39PM (#19800265)
Many people have tried this, and they invariably end up creating propaganda cesspools like conservapedia. Progressivism fundamentally values objectivity, so I don't think you can easily exclude the former without also losing the later.
Re:Golden: Mapping human knowledge by Angostura on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:16AM (#19796074)
Examples?