[WikiEN-l] How does Wikipedia compare for neutrality?

[James Farrar]

In your completely neutral opinion, of course.

On 30 April 2011 19:58, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Well I can tell you for a fact that the articles about kosovo are not
> neutral at all,
> mike
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a discussion elsewhere [1], the question of how WIkipedia compares
>> for neutrality with other encyclopedias came up.
>>
>> We've been compared with other encyclopedias for accuracy before. Has
>> anyone ever tried to compare us on neutrality? Or whatever
>> roughly-synonymous measure doesn't automatically bias the test towards
>> Wikipedia, which has it as a fundamental content policy.
>>
>> Compare Britannica. They've never touted themselves as neutral -
>> they've touted themselves as *authoritative*.[2] The Wikipedia article
>> on EB notes that EB has been increasingly lauded as less culturally
>> biased with time, though it occurs to me that's just the sort of
>> aspect a Wikipedia writer would note.
>>
>> And how good a proxy for what readers actually want is neutrality? I
>> think it's excellent, but I could be wrong. Do readers actually just
>> want to be told?
>>
>> How would you compare the neutrality of Wikipedia with that of
>> something else, in a meaningful and useful manner, such that the
>> framing of the question doesn't necessarily pick the winner before
>> you've started?
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
>> [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/5ho/seq_rerun_politics_is_the_mindkiller/422w
>> [2] Modulo the EB content disclaimer, which makes ours look mild.
>>
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