Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
sculd@beehaw.org 3 days ago
While I understand why Wikipedia is revered in an internet flooded by AI slop, I feel complicated seeing Wikipedia being described as this knowledge utopia when the truth is so…complicated.
Anyone who has participated in extensive editing should know what I mean. US-Europe centric, gender bias, systemic racial bias, etc…
Its very difficult when you are fighting the system.
randy@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
All of that is true, and the article brings it up. But the article is mostly about increasing accusations of Wikipedia having a liberal bias (e.g. recently from US Republican senator Ted Cruz), which the article suggests are not well-founded. I’m concerned about these increasing attacks, because if right-wing political types can reshape Wikipedia in the way they want, I expect all the biases you list will get worse, not better.