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> By and large, though, I think most people would agree that politically Wikipedia skews somewhat left of centre. I find this type of sentence very frustrating
by namdnay 5y ago
> By and large, though, I think most people would agree that politically Wikipedia skews somewhat left of centre.
I find this type of sentence very frustrating. Left of which centre? Where is the centre? What is left and what is right? None of these questions have clear answers as soon as you look at a global userbase.
I think en-wiki reflects the attitude of the editorbase, i.e. mostly young, mostly male, mostly white, mostly anglo-saxon, mostly educated, mostly geeky
- akolbe 5y agoI think you put that well, actually (although the editor base is not as young as it used to be ... quite a lot of oldies by now). I would agree with your phrasing. What I meant with left of centre was that, taking the US as an example, Obama and the Clintons (lots of Wikimedia consultants have Clinton links, actually) are more likely to get favourable write-ups on Wikipedia than Republicans.
- cabalamat 5y ago> Left of which centre? The median of English-speaking people, presumably.
- another-dave 5y agoFor example though it's often said in the UK that if the US Democratic party were over here they'd be seen as right of centre — the Overton window is very localised.
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