[WikiFR-l] Conservapédia - La concurence conservatrice aux US

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:44:58PM +0100,
 Luc Fievet <luc.fievet at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> Libération par le biais d'un de ses sites rapporte l'existence de
> Conservapédia,

Excellent en
tout. http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia
mérite d'être lu en entier. Mon préféré :

> Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most
> English-speaking users are American. Look up "Most Favored Nation"
> on Wikipedia and it automatically converts the spelling to the
> British spelling "Most Favoured Nation." Look up "Division of labor"
> on Wikipedia and it automatically converts to the British spelling
> "Division of labour," then insists on the British spelling for
> "specialization" also.[9] Enter "Hapsburg" (the European ruling
> family) and Wikipedia automatically changes the spelling to
> Habsburg, even though the American spelling has always been
> "Hapsburg". Within entries British spellings appear in the silliest
> of places, even when the topic is American. Conservapedia favors
> American spellings of words.

Et, plus loin :

> The entry on Henry Liddell illustrates this extreme form of
> Anglophilia that characterizes many entries in Wikipedia.

Tout s'explique ! Ce n'est pas Jimbo ou Anthère qui dirige Wikipédia,
c'est Elisabeth II !