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Israel Palestine war aside, there's been a lot of controversies about Wikipedia lately. Two of them were the presumably still unfixed content distortion and bia

Israel Palestine war aside, there's been a lot of controversies about Wikipedia lately. Two of them were the presumably still unfixed content distortion and bias incidents on Native American topics and the Holocaust in Poland. https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/wikipedia-native-american-history-settler-colonialism.html https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/wikipedia-native-americ... https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disinformation/ https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disin... Not to mention that there are alleged systemic biases against non-European narratives. https://www.worldreligionnews.com/wikipedia/wikipedia-and-buddhism-an-analysis-of-reliability-and-bias-in-the-worlds-largest-online-encyclopedia/ https://www.worldreligionnews.com/wikipedia/wikipedia-and-bu... A research paper essentially confirmed what many Wikipedia insiders, ex-editors and critics are trying to say - Wikipedia has a toxicity problem. https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are-fleeing-online-abuse-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-internet-and-you-218517 https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are...

kstenerud 2y ago
Sure, I don't doubt that there's genuine ideology-driven misinformation campaigns on Wikipedia (who wouldn't try it on the central source of trusted information?) But the author's focus on the Zionism thing is just plain weird.
- mostcallmeyt 2y ago
  It's up for debate regarding the author's focus, but one thing remain clear is that Wikipedia is overrated for some time and many choose not to see the nuances or issues that come with it. Just look at this one where one even accused me of "unhealthy obsession" against Wikipedia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691168 I suspect that those crazy fans of Elizabeth Holmes may have used the same aspersions against critics when John Carreyou published the article back then.

kstenerud 2y ago

Sure, I don't doubt that there's genuine ideology-driven misinformation campaigns on Wikipedia (who wouldn't try it on the central source of trusted information?) But the author's focus on the Zionism thing is just plain weird.

mostcallmeyt 2y ago
It's up for debate regarding the author's focus, but one thing remain clear is that Wikipedia is overrated for some time and many choose not to see the nuances or issues that come with it. Just look at this one where one even accused me of "unhealthy obsession" against Wikipedia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691168 I suspect that those crazy fans of Elizabeth Holmes may have used the same aspersions against critics when John Carreyou published the article back then.