Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-

[Ptarmigan]

Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/wikipedia-co-founder-launching-competitor-website-upset-about-pro-socialism

A co-founder of Wikipedia is launching a competing website as a free-speech-friendly alternative to what he views as the increasingly monolithic left-wing bias of his former organization.

Last May, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wrote an op-ed on his personal website titled "Wikipedia is Badly Biased" claiming that Wikipedia's neutrality policy — known as  "NPOV," or neutral point of view — "is dead."

Now, when schoolchildren visit the Wikipedia website to look up answers to questions about the meaning of socialism, "they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject," Sanger told "Just the News AM" television program. "And that's really problematic. That's not education. That's propaganda."

Sanger referred to a Fox News report last week by Maxim Lott, which noted, "The two main pages for 'Socialism' and 'Communism' span a massive 28,000 words, and yet they contain no discussion of the genocides committed by socialist and communist regimes, in which tens of millions of people were murdered and starved."

Larry Sanger is planning to form another Wikipedia as it is overrun with leftists.

"Frankly, we've already had tens of thousands of dollars' worth of volunteer work done by some high-powered volunteers, and I'm sure that will continue," Sanger said. "This is a long-term difficult project, and we want to do it right."

Sanger faces an uphill battle to overtake Wikipedia, given that the Website giant is the 13th most popular website in the world, according to the Alexa web rankings. Sanger said the Encyclosphere  would be run by a non-profit organization called the Knowledge Standards Foundation, which is currently raising funds.

Sanger said he had not been "cancelled" by his former colleagues, and that they had not tried to tamper significantly with his own Wikipedia entry, perhaps, he thinks, because "criticism of me would reflect badly on themselves."

"[T]hey treat me at this point as just another person that was associated with a project long ago," Sanger said.

[Eupher]

Wiki's bias has been obvious for decades -- which is one of the reasons citing it in academic/legitimate papers is generally frowned on.

[J P Sousa]

I remember in the 2008 election arguing with a liberal who would quote Wiki and I made screen shots of Wiki changing every few minutes.

The liberal was astounded.