Boycott Woke Wikipedia?
The online encyclopedia is begging for donations, but here's why you should not donate!
Earlier today I was searching for some information on the Internet, and I opened up a Wikipedia page, and this is what popped up:
I wasn’t surprised that Wikipedia is asking for donations to top up its endowment funds, but I was suprised at the size of the pop-up, and the language used in it. I was immediately struck by this sentence:
‘Show the world that access to reliable neutral, information matters to you.’
If Wikepedia actually focused on providing ‘reliable, neutral information’ to the public, then I am sure that it would have already reached its funding goals. And that highlights the problem.
According to Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikepedia, he left the company because the original policy of neutrality started to be abandoned from about 2009. The original committment to neutrality allowed the community of Wiki volunteers, who write and edit the topics for the online encyclopedia, to ‘battle it out’, and present both sides of a topic.
Sanger, who spoke to Freddie Sayers on Lockdown TV, indicated he no longer trusts Wikepedia as it has become increasingly partisan, especially on issues about Covid-19, and it is now promoting the western governments, and the World Health Organizations public health narratives, censoring and criticizing any one that disagrees with the official narratives. Sanger said that Wikepedia increasingly looks like ‘propaganda,’ and that he thinks it is ‘broken beyond repair.’
Another critic of the online encyclopedia is serial entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who runs the Covid Eearly Treatment Fund, and has been doing incredible research on the pandemic, especially on the deaths and adverse events created by the mRNA vaccines.
In this great article on his Substack blog, How Wikipedia transformed me into an evil person in just 4 days, Kirsch explains how Wikepedia has transformed him from a hero to a villain. And he gives many examples of doctors, researchers and scientists whose reputations are being attacked by Wikipedia because they disagree with the World Health Organizations narratives about Covid-19.
So my problem with Wikepedia’s request to donate is that they are no longer following their original mission, and they do not give ‘the world accesss to reliable, neutral information,’ which matters to everyone.
In fact it is very clear by the shift in the content on Wikepedia, that they have become woke, which is another word for ‘going communist.’ And they are already proving with the language used in their request above that they have adopted solid Marxist tactics of using language that says one thing, which appeals to the public, but they really mean and do the opposite.
Wikepedia will not be getting any financial support from me.
I think they should be boycotted.
What about you?
Ivan M. Paton
Wokiepedia, go to thy masters for dollars!
Yes definitely. I absolutely hate wiki"pedia" or Wokepedia - I agree with the term ;) .
I quote it only rarely and reluctantly, when I find it difficult to give other links, because Wiki are pretentious and misleading.
They pretend to give thorough information but they don't: many times I was dubious, went to check 3 other sites which specialise in the topics I was working on and bingo, I was right to be dubious.
Their format is old-school (what's the need for this in 2021?) as to give themselves more credibility perhaps, or more authority, in their heads only because why would "old school" be appealing to the younger public nowadays?
Recently, someone was trying to give me some "lesson" and sent me the wiki link for "conspiracy theorist". I replied to this person: "Thank you, I needed the laugh".