Posted on 02/17/2017 5:25:23 AM PST by Kaslin
Editor’s note: A fine piece of journalism on the takeover of Wikipedia by leftist thought police, intent on purging any availability through it of certain dangerous conservative sources. Our satirist friend Oleg Atbashian of the People’s Cube suffered banishment because the last thing leftists have is a sense of humor about themselves.
Because of his suppression, he was contacted by a journalist from a Dutch language Belgian news site in Brussels called Spectr. That writer, Jonas Naeyaert, produced the article below, translated into English, through the efforts of Oleg and a Dutch-speaking friend with the help of Google Translate:
Wikipedia purges politically incorrect newspaper 'The Daily Mail'
An influential group of Wikipedia editors decided last week no longer to accept the British right-wing newspaper 'The Daily Mail' as a reliable news source. The organization behind Wikipedia (The Wikimedia Foundation) claimed initially that it had no hand in this decision.
Such cases are usually decided by an online discussion, in which each Wikipedia member can participate, but the final call is made by the more experienced 'editors' of a higher grade (called "closers"). In order to climb up the 'Wiki hierarchy' and be a 'closer', you have to be nominated by other members based on your previous work for the website.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yeah... I use Conservapedia as well. Not perfect but a pretty good alternative. Sometimes just for the fun of it, I’ll compare it side by side to Wikipedia.... some very interesting differences.
It is impossible in every way for Wikipedia to be “Taken over by the leftist thought police.” That would require the leftist thought police to have ever lost control of the site they founded for propaganda purposes.
Hmmm...............
Sounds like The WayBack Machine Archive will come in handy!
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Gunny G @ Planet WTF!
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Thank you.
First time I have seen that website, and it is now on my favorites list.
for later
This is good source too. Specifically set up to be a non sjw alternative to wikipedia...
https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page
Infogalactic will be the new non Liberal wikipedia.
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