Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Venezuelanalysis and ZMagazine deemed not to fall within Wikipedia's neutrality policy
Anderson's claims come after an edit he made on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's entry in the encyclopaedia was deleted by Wikipedia administrators on the basis that it exhibited a 'lack of objectivity' and used 'illegitimate sources'. 'Wikipedia has come to play an important role in informing and also shaping public debates. Yet as a Florida-based, US creation, it brings its own baggage to those debates,' said Anderson in the entry. The academic was outraged after several of the sources he used in his edits -- including Venezuela Analysis and Z Magazine, were deemed not to fall within the encyclopaedia's neutral point of view (NPOV) policy, making them 'unusable'. Anderson claims that information attributed to US corporate media conglomerates such as Fox and Time Warner were potentially as biased as any of these sources.
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Many people have given up trying to add content to Wikipedia -- and for all sorts of content, not just political stuff. The problem is the self-appointed gatekeepers who patrol the site night and day, and who relentlessly and often capriciously interpret every edit by sometimes the most personal of yardsticks. And just like in politics: every time it's for the Greater Good, of course.
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