On 1/10/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is> wrote:
when it looks like the Wikimedia
foundation is encouraging people to hold over-simplified views on
complicated issues like, say, EU-enlargement, then that is not such a good
thing.
Thoughts?
Absolutely. This is a "What Wikipedia is not" issue. Wikipedia is in
danger of becoming known more for bumper sticker culture full of
simplistic political slogans than for its encyclopedie, which *used*
to be (I recall sometime back before December) about producing an
encyclopedia of which one of the most persistent policy points was its
*neutral* point of view.
How can we build a neutral encyclopedia while providing common
resources to enable the wide propagation of such rabid political
statements as "Love my Country —Fear my Government" (with wikilinks
to the articles on patriotism and neo-nazism) and "This user trusts
the EU (an over-powerful, non-democratic bureaucracy) about as far as
they can throw it"?