Welcome to Wikipedia is Evil!

This may come as something of a shock, but I believe Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is evil. Not simply misguided, or in need of a firm helping hand, but evil.

That isn’t to say that most of the contributors to Wikipedia, past or present are evil, because I don’t think they are at all. But they are misguided and they have been betrayed by the Wikimedia Foundation and by Jimbo Wales. In the weeks and months ahead, I’ll endeavour to show why that is so.

Wikipedia is not, nor will it ever be, the sum of human knowledge. Wikipedia is a political entity, first and foremost, to prevent the dissemination of knowledge that does not tally with a particular point of view. It does this under the extraordinary guise of representing “a consensus” and a “neutral point of view” (which in wiki-speak is called NPOV). It’s claim to be the largest encyclopedia in English is tendentiously true, but only on the basis of “never mind the quality, feel the width”.

The most important fact about Wikipedia is that it behaves like a political movement, replete with backers, high priests, hangers on, troublemakers and propagandists. Like all political movements, it has its own vocabulary of neologisms which mean virtually nothing outside of Wikipedia, but which are used as instruments of control.

Like other political movements, it has a lot of dissenters as well. I am one of them.

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