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Imagine if wikipedia courted specific types of activists. People should take sides but companies should be neutral,and get out of the way of people engaging in
by badrabbit 7y ago
Imagine if wikipedia courted specific types of activists. People should take sides but companies should be neutral,and get out of the way of people engaging in political discourse or activism.
- robk 7y agoWikipedia is chock full of activists
- badrabbit 7y agoUsers,users! Not wikipedia promoted groups. Ffs,what is controversial about that?
- notadoc 7y agoWikipedia is far from neutral and full of activists and people with agendas. It can sometimes be acceptable for a broad overview of a subject, but it's so full of opinion, inaccuracy, and misinformation that it should have near zero credibility for anyone who is seeking truth and bias-free knowledge. Appropriately, it has zero credibility in any credible academic environment BTW.
- adrianN 7y agoThere are no unbiased sources of knowledge. Wikipedia isn't special. Everything is written by humans and humans have their biases. That's why you shouldn't get all your information from a single source.
- kaycebasques 7y ago> The journal Nature says the open-access encyclopedia is about as accurate as the old standby. https://www.cnet.com/news/study-wikipedia-as-accurate-as-britannica/ https://www.cnet.com/news/study-wikipedia-as-accurate-as-bri...