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(e.g., Bill Clinton did this good thing but some say it was bad. He also did this bad thing but some say it was not so bad as opposed to Bill Clinton did this thing and then that thing.) To put it another way, good writing makes NPOV flow like an encyclopedia; not-so-good writing makes it flow like "Crossfire".
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Controversy surrounding the online encyclopedia Wikipedia This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Criticism of Wikipedia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ...
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the site has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, under which anyone can edit most articles, has led to concerns ...
A 2014 trend analysis published in The Economist stated that "The number of editors for the English-language version has fallen by a third in seven years." [25] The attrition rate for active editors in English Wikipedia was described by The Economist as substantially higher than in other (non-English Wikipedias).
Wikipedia pages often cite reliable secondary sources that vet data from primary sources. If the information on another Wikipedia page (which you want to cite as the source) has a primary or secondary source, you should be able to cite that primary or secondary source and eliminate the middleman (or "middle-page" in this case).
Strict human interaction is very likely to rise rage and conflict. Being prevented by Mr. X to access a page is likely to be felt as a dumb decision/a revenge/a misunderstanding. Being prevented by automatic filtering to access a page (because you posted a well known X-bad-link, because you named somebody 'Nazi', ...) is more impersonal. Mr.
Government censorship of Wikipedia (may come with demands of changes to Wikipedia / Wikipedia content) (See also: Help:Censorship) . Proposed countermeasures or solutions: political engagement, improving anonymous / censorship-resistant access-methods (such as creating a Tor.onion-site or an I2P eepsite and allowing VPN write access), meshnet, actively distributing Wikipedia, categorically ...
Wikipedia can be dangerous, because everything you typed will be stored on the server permanently. Sometimes you have to be extra careful when saving a page, remember to check if it contains personal information and whatnot to identify you.