On 1/10/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@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"?