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Wikipedia Announces Their 10 Longest Featured Articles (wikimedia.org)
The Wikimedia blog shared a list of their ten longest "featured" articles, highlighting their collection of more than 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer." The ed17 writes: Elvis Presley leads the list, coming in at 17,659 words. In today's strangest juxtaposition, 'History of Poland (1945 - 89)' features just behind. A pope, Michael Jackson, and the Maya civilization also land spots.
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
The third-longest featured article covers the Manhattan Project, with a majority of the article covering the development of the first nuclear weapons, as well as a discussion about their post-war impact. Among all of their featured articles, Wikimedia calls it "perhaps one of the more controversial."
" 4,700 articles which have rigorously reviewed before being awarded a gold star icon certifying them as "the best articles Wikipedia has to offer."
this includes english article on 'british empire', a poster child for bias among entrenched editors at wikimedia
attempts to include the factual cited details about british empire's mass murders and genocides, ethnic cleansings(well in to 1970s), regime sanctioned slavery and bonded labor, preventable famines that killed millions(in to 1940s), large scale land and resource grabs, destruction and looting of cultural treasures, regular revolts and protests against regime ( both violent and non violent) in almost every colony, and their brutal suppressions, are censored(except for a unavoidable line or two). people who attempt to include any of that are regularly banned from wikipedia .
ironically some, not all, of the censored material in this article is accepted and available in wikipedia's specialized articles on the subjects like slavery, famines, war crimes, etc. however even parts of sentences with links to specialized articles are censored. contrast this treatment to inclusion of such details in main wikipedia articles about equally horrible actions by similarly brutish regimes like on ussr, communist china, nazi germany, etc. .
even discussion page for british empire article is censored to prevent discussion of sources.
careful examination of history pages, of both the article and discussion page, in date sequence changes will confirm this.