[Wikipedia-l] non-English Wikipedias

Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw at users.sf.net
Thu Dec 4 20:50:27 UTC 2003


On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:52:55PM -0800, Delirium wrote:
[...]
> So I guess my question is: do people think it is likely that Wikipedias 
> in languages that are spoken almost exclusively by people of one 
> particular national background can ever hope to achieve anything even 
> remotely resembling the NPOV on the Wikipedias in languages that are 
> spoken by a wide range of people?  Is having contributors from a wide 
> range of backgrounds a necessary prerequisite for NPOV (as I suggest)?

But the English Wikipedia isn't NPOV at all !
Especially on anything related to Middle East conflict, it almost
invariantly has Israeli bias, probably because of relatively large number
of American Jewish contributors, compared to hardly any Arab contributors.



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