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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
