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And yet Wikipedia is biased (and hence may even be misinformative) on many topics, because its editors and moderators are biased.

Source: the Wikipedia founder himself..

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/wikipedia-co-founder-...

And the real reason that editing Wikipedia is difficult, is because of the ideological bias of the moderators so they support only the editors to conform to their ideology and reject any edits that go against their ideology even if those edit are literal proven truths.

Source: I am an editor on Wikipedia and my own informative useful edits to some important topics on my country have been rejected, while the misinformative and even malicious edits by agents of the enemy nation on those same topics were allowed and continue to persist and mislead whoever reads those articles.

Wikipedia has become a weapon of misinformative propaganda, and it's not a tool or repository of useful accurate information. This is why Wikipedia is banned in schools and universities, because its information may not be credible and Wikipedia has long ago lost the integrity that any worldwide free information repository should have had.



>I am an editor on Wikipedia and my own informative useful edits to some important topics on my country have been rejected

This sounds really interesting, can you provide an example?


Larry Sanger is famously mad at Wikipedia for a very long time now because they wouldn't allow his pseudoscience on it. Later on that also extended to his (increasingly far right) politics.

Ironically, the supposedly-censored Wikipedia has a lengthy article covering all of it including Sanger's accusations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger




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