Wiki dwindling
Nov. 26th, 2009 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages
Wikimedia says: "The purpose of the project is not participation."
One factor is that many topics already have been written about.
Another is the plethora of rules Wikipedia has adopted to bring order to its unruly universe -- particularly to reduce infighting among contributors about write-ups of controversial subjects and polarizing figures.
I'd add a third one...
Wiki is great if you want to know if the world is flat or round, or any other information on which there is a 100 per cent consensus.
But issues that are contentious are heavily censored and those who disagree with the official version are labeled with the usual tags: "Conspiracy Theorist", "Denier", "Dissident", "Anti-Semite", etc.
There is also widespread use of phrases "Respected Historians/Scientists". These are of course those who agree with the "Official version".
It is, more or less, a propaganda site.
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Date: 2009-11-27 05:01 pm (UTC)And, didn't I say here that the biographies of public and historical figures are what is the most controversial part of Wikipedia? I think I did.
And ultimately, you may have your own version of history, I have no problem with that. You could launch a Underlankepedia if you like.
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Date: 2009-11-27 06:03 pm (UTC)And no, I don't have my own version of history, I have sources that at least pretend to be academic and not Armenia-wanking exercises.
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Date: 2009-11-27 09:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-27 10:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-28 12:45 am (UTC)