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I find the "Wikipedia shouldn't be politicized" argument very strage - as the WikiMedia Foundation already hires political lobbyists, which seems pretty politic
by twelvechairs 15y ago
I find the "Wikipedia shouldn't be politicized" argument very strage - as the WikiMedia Foundation already hires political lobbyists, which seems pretty politicized to me... Are you against wikimedia using lobbyists too? Or are they different in some way (that I fail to see)?
- waqf 15y agoWell, it's certainly the case that there's more than one kind of politicized: for example Wikimedia is a 501(c)(3) organization, a status which prohibits certain kinds of political activity. But what I have in mind here is that this is a lot closer to the content of Wikipedia becoming politicized, in the following sense: user goes to Wikipedia to get information about something innocuous, Wikipedia takes the opportunity to tell user about one side of a political debate of the Wikimedia Foundation's choosing. That's a dangerous precedent.