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Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder
wikinerd writes "Wikipedia is under criticism by its co-founder Larry Sanger who has left the project. He warns of a possible future fork due to Wikipedia's Anti-Elitism and he presents his view on Wikipedia's (lack of) reliability. New wikis on various subjects have already emerged, with some of them being complete forks of Wikipedia. Critical articles on Wikipedia are also being published by other sources."
"Another option is /. style moderation, where you can log in and vote on the accuracy of an article."
any topics that are deemed sensitive by a large enough fraction of the population will be modded down
the result would be that anything to do with sex, violence, drugs, laws would be voted down by either europeans or americans, depending on the issue.
look at slashdot itself: any pro linux post automatically gets modded up, while almost any pro windows post gets modded down, regardless of the value of the information itself.
The tsunami was a natural disaster. The torture at Abu G. was deliberate and probably ordered at the request of the intelligence service. You are comparing apples and oranges. As for rape allegation, they were some at Abu G. at least they were reported in non-us media outlets.
Remember... A boomerang IS NOT the best way to deliver a bomb.
If you'd bother to do some web surfing with the "Fox Filter" turned OFF, you see everything that you are wholly denying. Abu Ghraib is an instance of the use of rape, period. Photos, reports and testimonials prove it. Senators have admitted this, but you refuse to.
Hence, I accuse you of WILLFUL IGNORANCE, if not OUTRIGHT LYING. Good riddance to your highly biased editiorializing. Wiki is better off without such rightwingnuts like yourself.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]