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

[James Farrar]

I'm not interested. That's the point. You've been whining about this
on here for months.

On 2 May 2011 18:06, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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