And now it's Wikipedia

[Roy]

America's history of slavery is the other example that I had in mind when I cited the Nazis and Germany. Neither are left out of basic articles on the subjects of the U.S. and Germany, forcing those interested to look up specific separate articles. And that's the way it should be.

The Russian and Chinese atrocities are not left out of the articles on Russia and China. You are comparing two different things.

[rogue06]

You can't establish bias by only looking at treatment of one side. The OP complains about the articles on communism and socialism not mentioning various atrocities by Russia, China and others. It doesn't say whether the articles on e.g. republicanism, totalitarianism etc do mention atrocities. If they don't - and a quick look suggests they don't* - there's no bias and no discrimination, just a somewhat odd policy, and the author of the article is merely showing his own bias.

*The page on Nazism does, but that one is possibly more germane than the others since genocide was central to the ideology.

While not necessarily a goal of his policies Mao readily admitted that in order to accomplish them "half of China may well have to die. If not half, one-third, or one-tenth -- 50 million -- die."

And genocide against the Ukrainians appears to have been the goal of Stalin's Holodomor (terror Famine).

[Roy]

While not necessarily a goal of his policies Mao readily admitted that in order to accomplish them "half of China may well have to die. If not half, one-third, or one-tenth -- 50 million -- die."

And genocide against the Ukrainians appears to have been the goal of Stalin's Holodomor (terror Famine).

I don't know enough about Stalin's Holodomor to comment. But a quick look suggests that it, like Mao's policies, doesn't have any relevance to the point I was making.

If Smith hates everyone, and Jones says "Smith hates Jews", which of them is biased?

[CivilDiscourse]

Well, yeah, but this is business as usual for Wikipedia. Has been for a very long time. I don't know why people are acting like this is a new development.

Wikipedia was an interesting but failed social experiment. The hypothesis that only those who were knowledgeable in a subject would edit pages, and everybody else would exercise restraint seemed to ignore human nature.

It largely depends. Wikipedia is generally pretty good when the topics are not political/idealogical in nature. The larger problem is when these partisan wars bleed over to areas that have partisan attention. Then you have people editing with bias in mind.

[Cow Poke]

AND more...

Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Competitor Due To Wikipedia’s Left-Wing Bias

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger announced he is starting an alternative to Wikipedia due to the fact they have been taken over by the left.

Sanger told Just the News that his new, forthcoming project, called “Encyclosphere,” is a decentralized network of the world’s encyclopedias, what he called “an old-fashioned, leaderless, ownerless network, like the blogosphere.”

Sanger said just as there are no administrators in the blogosphere, “in the same way, I want to create a protocol that very loosely ties all the encyclopedias online together.”

[Sparko]

AND more...

Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Competitor Due To Wikipedia’s Left-Wing Bias

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger announced he is starting an alternative to Wikipedia due to the fact they have been taken over by the left.

Sanger told Just the News that his new, forthcoming project, called “Encyclosphere,” is a decentralized network of the world’s encyclopedias, what he called “an old-fashioned, leaderless, ownerless network, like the blogosphere.”

Sanger said just as there are no administrators in the blogosphere, “in the same way, I want to create a protocol that very loosely ties all the encyclopedias online together.”

So it will be like a meta-wikipedia? How does he think he will stop the same thing from happening there?

[Cow Poke]

So it will be like a meta-wikipedia? How does he think he will stop the same thing from happening there?

Maybe he's gonna vet the contributors?

[Sparko]

Maybe he's gonna vet the contributors?

"decentralized network of the world’s encyclopedias" sounds like it will just be some sort of meta-search engine for other online encyclopedias.

[Cow Poke]

"decentralized network of the world’s encyclopedias" sounds like it will just be some sort of meta-search engine for other online encyclopedias.

That makes a lot more sense!

[Sparko]

I haven't watched all of this yet, but I found a video of his talking about it:

18 minutes