[HN Gopher] Wikipedia cofounder: I no longer trust the website I...
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       Wikipedia cofounder: I no longer trust the website I created
        
       Author : elsewhen
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-07-15 22:04 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
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       | okareaman wrote:
       | Wikipedia: Since Sanger's departure from Wikipedia, he has been
       | critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being "broken
       | beyond repair".[2]
       | 
       | Poor guy is really beating a dead horse about "left wing"
       | Wikipedia. Oddly, he doesn't seem to be working on Conservapedia
       | [https://www.conservapedia.com/Larry_Sanger] but something called
       | Encyclosphere
       | 
       | [2] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/wikipedia-broken-beyond-
       | repai...
        
       | idiotsecant wrote:
       | I think having standards around what sources are acceptable is
       | sort of a required feature if you want to be a reliable source of
       | facts. There will always be people upset that their particular
       | worldview doesn't fit in a place that is trying to be a factual
       | description of reality. If you're upset about eastern medicine
       | not being taken seriously enough do some double blind properly
       | constructed studies showing why it's effective. If it isn't
       | effective don't expect it to be taken seriously as medicine.
        
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