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Yeah, Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia. What's really interesting is the pattern: First he was skeptical of WP's abi

Yeah, Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia. What's really interesting is the pattern: First he was skeptical of WP's ability to crowdsource its editing, then he felt that WP's NPOV was biased but wouldn't explain how, then he tried to get some sort of special paid editors to be even more neutral somehow? And now we're here, where it turns out that his complaints about neutrality were smokescreens for latent delusions and politically-motivated departures from reality. Maybe Sanger couldn't handle the fact that a community can produce thousands of free Featured Articles (community-verified high-quality WP articles) while he ran out of money trying to produce a few dozen.

arp242 5y ago
> Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia Sanger left Wikipedia over 20 years ago, he only worked on it in its first first year from earlier 2001 to early 2002. Besides, Sanger has always been a bit of a cook, on CZ he just outright rejected feminism as an academic field because it was too left-wing, never mind his love for all sorts of pseudoscience on CZ. It's hilarious, because he started an entire site based on expertise, and then just rejected this expertise if he didn't like it in all sorts of fields. This is the man that's we're supposed to take serious when he talks about Wikipedia? Pull me another one. Wikipedia has its fair share of issues, but CZ was outright and openly partisan in a way that Wikipedia never has been. A lot of it was scrubbed of nonsense after he left, but by then he already managed to chase off most experts he had initially recruited and the project was pretty much dead (I'm amazed it's still online today though, although the only real edits in the last 30 days is one person editing the Peter Jackson page).

arp242 5y ago

> Sanger's gone batshit, and it makes me regret ever contributing to Wikipedia Sanger left Wikipedia over 20 years ago, he only worked on it in its first first year from earlier 2001 to early 2002. Besides, Sanger has always been a bit of a cook, on CZ he just outright rejected feminism as an academic field because it was too left-wing, never mind his love for all sorts of pseudoscience on CZ. It's hilarious, because he started an entire site based on expertise, and then just rejected this expertise if he didn't like it in all sorts of fields. This is the man that's we're supposed to take serious when he talks about Wikipedia? Pull me another one. Wikipedia has its fair share of issues, but CZ was outright and openly partisan in a way that Wikipedia never has been. A lot of it was scrubbed of nonsense after he left, but by then he already managed to chase off most experts he had initially recruited and the project was pretty much dead (I'm amazed it's still online today though, although the only real edits in the last 30 days is one person editing the Peter Jackson page).