Re:Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I cre...
by 8bitsrule on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:04PM
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Encyclopedias as a class have tended to be contentious since they first appeared. Diderot [0] & d'Alembert's French work started in reaction to Chambers' 1751 English work. After the first volumes appeared, in 1759 their work was suppressed by authorities for being ~~too liberal. (By 1772 they had made 28 volumes.) And they inspired the 1768 English 'answer' by Macfarquhar and Bell which became the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[0] Diderot once said: 'Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.'
However the certified experts hired to contribute articles in more recent editions were selected, they tended to represent conventional opinion, and articles were kept tame enough to offend noone.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I cre...
by mc32 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @10:08PM
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His complaint is that they do not allow sources of claims that contest the prevailing narrative (of some topics) and that this leads to a biased view of reality.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I cre...
by fito on Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:24AM
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Why is Larry Sanger still trying to grab attention to himself with his old grudges? That he despises Wikipedia is not news. Heck, back when I was in writing class I wrote a comparative essay on Wikipedia and Citizendium, and this was like ten years ago, when I was learning English.
Re:Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I cre...
by memling on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:42PM
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I'm not sure this addresses the criticisms in his post. it's possible he's salty about the loss of power, but his complaint is that the site is systemically biased. a better rebuttal might be to show how it's not?
[0] Diderot once said: 'Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.'
However the certified experts hired to contribute articles in more recent editions were selected, they tended to represent conventional opinion, and articles were kept tame enough to offend noone.
Look at the Trump Phenom. He isn't hated because he's bad or ineffective or corrupt. He is hated because he seized power and Isn't a leftist.