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

[Mike Dupont]

Well I would love to provide you very very examples of where I
attempted to fix the problems there.
The wikpedia loves to claim being NPOV but in fact in kosovo there is
a total bent, just compare the de.en,sq and sr wikis via translation,
each of them has its own POV and subscribes to some side.
if you are really interested in this I can tell you more.
mike

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:08 PM, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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