Observatoire de wikipedia, le mythe de la neutralité.
Socrate contre les Sophistes
Wikipedia a été définie comme une source non fiable
par les professeurs
[prévenez David Monniaux qui l'ignore : + de 75% des
étudiants sont prévenus par leurs professeurs de ne pas utiliser wikipedia, et il s'agit de l'anglaise qui est, paraît-il, incomparablement meilleure que la française.
]
Elle a été dénoncée par auteurs et éditeurs.
Jugée comme tout à fait nocives par des bibliothécaires.
Des chercheurs ont signalé à quel point elle peut être sujette à manipulations
-particulièrement par les pouvoirs gouvernementaux.
[là encore prévenez David Monniaux qui l'ignore et qui est à la recherche de
critiques sérieuses.]
Mais elle est toujours utilisée, toujours citée et elle continue à grossir comme
un monstre toujours davantage chaque jour.
[extraits de l'article original]
The Internet has brought the world some wonderful sources of information.
And it has brought us some perfectly dreadful sources of misinformation.
Wikipedia falls into the latter category. And this column is my latest effort to demonstrate just how abusive this so-called "online collaborative encyclopedia" really is.
It is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is wholesale purveyor of lies
and slander unlike any other the world
Think about it.
Wikipedia boasts 684 million annual visitors. I can't think of too many sources of information that attract that much attention.
And that's really the problem - that too many people looking for easy and cheap sources of information turn to this wholly unreliable website run by political and social activists promoting their own agenda.
This is hardly the first time Wikipedia has slimed me.
A couple years ago, the "editors" there claimed I had an affair with a prominent female syndicated columnist. Now they characterize me as a "noted homosexual." Neither one of these accusations has any basis in truth, of course. But you can see just how confused they are over there: Am I a heterosexual philanderer, or am I a noted homosexual?
Which is it? It turns out they're both untrue - as is most of the rest of my bio. And I doubt very much if I am the only victim of this kind of pseudo-journalistic terrorism and character assassination.
Wikipedia claims "anyone" can edit its information. But, in the past, try as I might, the defamations kept coming back. I was even told I was not a reliable source of information about me. Others apparently knew me better, according to the Wikipedia gatekeepers.
I actually had to threaten a libel suit against Wikipedia to get the site to remove the previous attempt at defamation. It took days of waiting. It took hours of making corrections that were quickly replaced intentionally with the undocumented and undocumentable lies designed to hurt and humiliate.
Am I just bellyaching because I'm a victim?
No. There's a much bigger point to be made here. If ever there were a website to avoid at all costs, it's Wikipedia. No good can possibly come from using this vast wasteland of error and deliberate deceit. You should get off of it and warn others away. You should make sure your children and grandchildren know what a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution it truly is.
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