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wikipedia is great for science content, old content that is research based. things where the sources can be find and cited clearly. wikipedia is not great for c

wikipedia is great for science content, old content that is research based. things where the sources can be find and cited clearly. wikipedia is not great for current events. there is a clear bias in wikipedias content. even something as simple as the did you know section on the homepage. for nearly all of 2022 and the early part of this year one of the 5 items in the did you know section was about ukraine every single day. i’m not trying to make a post about the war i’m really trying to say i wish wikipedia didn’t do this kind of stuff to portray a sense of “neutral information hub” rather than “wiki admin propaganda tool”

willdr 3y ago
DYK is a notorious part of Wikipedia from an editing POV and is rife with long-term accounts who all they do is curate it.
Borgz 3y ago
I arbitrarily selected the month of September 2022 and found that on only 5 out of the 30 days of the month was there an entry related to Ukraine or Ukrainians in the "Did you know" section. Of those 5, only 1 was related to the war. I disagree that 5/30 constitutes "nearly every day". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2022/September#Did_you_know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/202...... Furthermore, I don't see what's inherently wrong with including information in that section that relates to a topic people are likely to be interested in at the moment. Additionally, the "Did you know section" isn't really for current events. That would be the "In the news" section.
ChrisKnott 3y ago
This surprised me but I randomly checked three days and none of them had anything relating to Ukraine in "Did You Know?" https://web.archive.org/web/20220715144903/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220715144903/https://en.m.wiki... https://web.archive.org/web/20220819171715/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220819171715/https://en.m.wiki... https://web.archive.org/web/20220902170516/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220902170516/https://en.m.wiki... (by chance one of the Featured Articles was "Confirmation Bias")

willdr 3y ago

DYK is a notorious part of Wikipedia from an editing POV and is rife with long-term accounts who all they do is curate it.

Borgz 3y ago

I arbitrarily selected the month of September 2022 and found that on only 5 out of the 30 days of the month was there an entry related to Ukraine or Ukrainians in the "Did you know" section. Of those 5, only 1 was related to the war. I disagree that 5/30 constitutes "nearly every day". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2022/September#Did_you_know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/202...... Furthermore, I don't see what's inherently wrong with including information in that section that relates to a topic people are likely to be interested in at the moment. Additionally, the "Did you know section" isn't really for current events. That would be the "In the news" section.

ChrisKnott 3y ago

This surprised me but I randomly checked three days and none of them had anything relating to Ukraine in "Did You Know?" https://web.archive.org/web/20220715144903/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220715144903/https://en.m.wiki... https://web.archive.org/web/20220819171715/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220819171715/https://en.m.wiki... https://web.archive.org/web/20220902170516/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://web.archive.org/web/20220902170516/https://en.m.wiki... (by chance one of the Featured Articles was "Confirmation Bias")