On 04/16/2013 04:48 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
but I suppose that our project also attract more homophobic minds and so on.
That has not been my experience. I think much of the perception of "liberal bias" is actually caused by the generally widespread acceptance of the average anglophone Wiki[mp]edian towards diversity; at least comparatively to the societies they primarily represent.
My hypothesis is that -- pretty much be definition -- a group of people rallying together under the banner of Open Knowledge has a strong natural aversion to the kind of obscurantism and information control that is necessary for prejudice and discrimination. While there may be individuals that have problems, the group's natural flow will work against it.
-- Marc