In your completely neutral opinion, of course. On 30 April 2011 19:58, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania > flossk.org flossal.org > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
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