Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some parts of wikipedia are biased as fuck… specially the ones covering politics of populist countries. There are armies of talkies bending reality to their likes and needs.

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  • hamid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probablemente tengas razon, todos los articulos de wikipedia son escritos y revisados por pares en Washington… mala mia

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• bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hahahaha, oh wow… Wikipedia is so biased on some topics that heads are spinning while reading some pages.

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  • BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you have an example? Just curious.

    Personally I’d rather have crowd sourced bias than the bias of one really rich dude anyways.

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    • bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lot of ex-communist east european countries history is biased as fuck. But I agree with you, I don’t think Musk buying Wikipedia would benefit it in any way. Although how much of “crowd” bias is there now is arguable as a lot of them are probably a part of some NGO or something…

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you have a source to back this up?

        And can you send this source to Wikipedia so they can update their pages since they strive for NPOS?

        They are clearly not as biassed as you claim they are.

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      • b1tstremist0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not just NGOs, many groups are also involved in information warefare. This is a result of Wikipedia’s poor policies that favor profits more than its purpose.

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    • hal_5700X@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      or we can have no bias at all. But you do you.

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      • BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean, good luck with that. It’s near enough impossible to completely remove bias from any source of information… I think Wikipedia does a fairly good job, honestly, and the talk pages mean you can see different perspectives fairly openly.

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s not perfect and there is some drama but it’s still amazing and one of the few remaining pieces from the dream many of us had for the Internet before almost everything else sold out.

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  • KelsonV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    [citation needed]

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