Wikipedia

Wikipedia
Description	Internet encyclopedia
Slogan	The Free Encyclopedia
Available language(s)	more than 300
Launched	15 January 2001
Current status	active
Number of Articles	> 6.5 million (English version) (Effective: Nov 9, 2022) 64 of them taken over
More info
Software	MediaWiki
Content license	CC BY-SA 3.0
Registration	optional
Commercial	no
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation[wp]
Created by	Jimmy Wales[wp], Larry Sanger[wp]
URL	en.wikipedia.org (English version) www.wikipedia.org (overview portal to all languages)
Twitter	@Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a publicly accessible (and publicly editable) wiki website with global reach. Because of its great popularity, this article takes a critical look at this medium. This discussion is necessary because on the one hand, the Wikipedia due to its size and popularity sets standards, and on the other hand, the question of the legitimacy of alternative wiki sites as WikiMANNia demands an answer.

Nature

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia founded in January 2001, the majority of whose articles are created and maintained by anonymous authors, or authors who write under pseudonyms. Wikipedia provides text, images, and other media, free of user rights. So they can be freely used anywhere.

Claim and reality

objective	official claim or policy	reality
Neutral viewpoint	An important guiding principle of Wikipedia states that articles should be formulated from a neutral, non-judgmental point of view[wp]. In case of doubt, the majority opinion counts as a neutral point of view.	Since the majority point of view is considered neutral, it receives the most attention. Minority views are mostly omitted for clarity of an article. Wikipedia does not claim to check the plausibility of arguments. In practice, the author may also have to accept the subjective beliefs of a WP administrator, because the administrator has more power than the author. In this way, no neutral point of view is achieved, but a standardisation on the positions of the WP admin.
Secondary sources	Another guiding principle states that no own thoughts, opinions and theories[wp] should be included in Wikipedia. Therefore, only secondary sources should be used as a source of knowledge for the content.	Since Wikipedia only evaluates secondary sources, there is a ban on thinking within Wikipedia, to put it bluntly. A thought or conclusion may only be formulated in Wikipedia if it has already been formulated in another source.
Respectful approach	Because Wikipedia claims to be neutral, respectful interaction is always required. "Intelligent people do not work voluntarily in an atmosphere of disrespect and abuse."	The claim of respectful interaction can be misused by serving as an argumentation aid to eliminate critical opinions.
Non-commercial content	Wikipedia takes the claim to offer free content without commercial interests.	"Wikipedia unmasked – as a brilliant invention from Jimmy Wales[wp], the long term free content[wp] for their commercial sites[wp] to generate and attract customers – as well as their enterprise subsidised[wp]. As with Lenin[wp] realised, how to win 'useful idiots' - and keep."

Secret key medium

In 2007, the historian Maren Lorenz, who worked for the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture set up by Jan Philipp Reemtsma^[wp], described Wikipedia as the secret key medium because of its wide reach and popularity.

Infiltration

Lobbying of Feminism

• Criticism by Schwarze Feder^[wp] of the article Maskulismus^[wp] in the German-language Wikipedia.

Lobbying of Gender

Representatives of genderism have created a parallel universe with terms from gender ideology in Wikipedia. Since the pseudo-science of gender studies is being funded by the government at the universities with immense funds, a large number of pseudo-scientific works have emerged in the meantime, which are diligently quoted in Wikipedia. Criticism of genderism does not take place or only marginally.

Lobbying of gay and lesbians

Gays and lesbians spread their claim to a leading culture on Wikipedia. Every article related to people, woman, man, or family and marriage is 'conquered' and 'enriched' with homosexual perspectives. The classic family and normal marriage thus become a 'special case' of a 'gender-conforming', partnership consisting of any combination of normal woman, normal man, lesbian woman, gay man, bisexual woman, bisexual man, transsexual woman, transsexual man, is formed.

Lobbying of climate and greenhouse

William Connolley is one of the Wikipedia privileged administrators at Wikipedia. Next to Al Gore, he is perhaps the most influential person in the world in the greenhouse effect debate. Connolley once worked as a climate modeller, and his opinion counted for a lot on Wikipedia. Then it came out that he unilaterally manipulated all the articles in the climate section. It is about the thesis that there is global warming that is bad for the earth and caused by humans.

Connolley was a great asset for Wikipedia: an administrator with exceptional editorial clout. So far he has used this clout to dismantle scientists and critics who contradict the anti-global warming consensus. Now a particularly serious case of a manipulated war of opinions has become apparent: using a wide-ranging campaign, not only in the online encyclopaedia, selected meteorological facts were used to suggest to the population that a climate catastrophe was imminent.

For years, Connolley filtered information from Wikipedia articles that could contradict the theory of man-made global warming. In addition, he also edited the biographies of researchers who disagreed in order to reduce their credibility. This is how Wikipedia became a reliable main source for the climate rush.

Pharmaceutical lobby

Quote:

«Surely just a coincidence that at Wikipedia to all pharmacological substances professional products are available with very good rating. Certainly, all created by amateurs.»

Equality ideologues

The inner circle of authors and administrators of the German-language Wikipedia functions like a closed Jacobin Club^[wp]. Every self-imposed and actually binding rule is flouted when it concerns an author who violates the common line of the ideology of equality.Knol: Der Totalitätsanspruch der Gleichheitsideologie in der Wikipedia: Der exemplarische Fall Andreas Kemper alias Schwarze Feder, Volkmar Weiss on May 22, 2009 (Last edited: March 5th, 2011, 10:01 am) ^{[dead link]}</ref>

Known issues

Working environment

Endless debates and regulation frenzy frustrate newcomers. The days of forbearance and leniency are over, it seems. A hard core of activists is increasingly intolerant - not only against the multitude of vandals and scribblings, but also against the clumsy people who simply enter what interests them. No wonder people are starting to lose interest. The climate on Wikipedia is becoming more hostile, with many people feeling increasingly burned out having to discuss the content of certain articles over and over again. Above all, the endless debates about deletions can unsettle the strongest optimist. Active users complain that they can hardly write because of all the maintenance work.

External links

• Conservapedia has an article about Wikipedia
• Conservapedia has an article about Examples of Bias in Wikipedia
• A Voice for Men: To the Censors at Wikipedia. To the moderators and admins at Wikipedia., October 15, 2011
• Wissen ist Macht: Ein Klassenkämpfer plustert im Online-Lexikon sein Gefieder auf - Der Fall Schwarze Feder, Junge Freiheit on 12. June 2009
• Genderama: "Maskulinisten" in der Wikipedia?, Arne Hoffmann on 19. May 2008
• WikiIndex has an article about the English Wikipedia, a navigational template to all known Wikipedia sites, and a category for all Wikipedia sites listed on WikiIndex

Critique on Wikipedia

• Metapedia: Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: Wikipedia, Examples of Bias in Wikipedia
• Michael Klein: Ideological hijacking: German branch of Wikipedia threatens to fail, July 29, 2012

Alternative encyclopedia

• WikiMANNia: Conservapedia