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> Anything that is editorialized will skew to an extreme over time It is exactly why Actuator’s point in the OP was actually incorrect. > While Wikipedia's mo
by olah_1 5y ago
> Anything that is editorialized will skew to an extreme over time
It is exactly why Actuator’s point in the OP was actually incorrect.
> While Wikipedia's model seems far better than an individual publishing house's encyclopedia
The illusion of an unbiased “encyclopedia for the world” has harmed the decentralization of information. It has actually created a unipolarity much like we see elsewhere around the world.
It would be far better to have multiple different encyclopedia companies that could compete and perhaps even specialize in certain areas.
But how do we keep the convenience of having them all connected? That is what Larry Sanger has been working on[1]. A federated network of encyclopedias that use the same data formats.
[1]: https://encyclosphere.org/ https://encyclosphere.org/