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9 thoughts on “The Wikipedia Correction Project (WCP)”
tz
First, see Infogalactic.com
Second, I immediatelly reject the idea over at least these terms:
“Hateful, … material will not be considered.“
Hateful material about what some Germans did in the early 1940’s? Hateful is one of those squishy, arbitrary, subjective terms used everywhere else to ban what someone doesn’t like but can’t find a reason. Some facts and truth can be considered “hateful”. So what is the point in doing SJW-lite?
Same if not worse here:
“‘Conspiracy Theory,’ ‘fringe,’ or other material will not be considered at this stage, as I do not have the infrastructure to properly handle it.”
You can’t even define it so it will be another “I personally don’t like it so I reject it” catch-all as SJW-lite.
No, if you want to CORRECT Wikipedia, then reject objectively false material, have opinion labeled as such, insure citations or other independent confirmation (which can contradict – see your vaccine coverage – or is that a fringe conspiracy?).
Again, see InfoGalactic.com, or my suggestion would see if you and/or Andrew Torba can create a custom version of Dissenter that would be Stickypedia that would overlay Wikipedia pages with “sticky notes” dscribing the inaccuracy with links
Infogalactic.com, where the President of France is François Hollande and the Prime Minister is François Hollande, Where Muhammad Ali lives on, and where Avengers: Infinity War is yet to screen.
I think I’ll go somewhere else for information.
First, see Infogalactic.com
Second, I immediatelly reject the idea over at least these terms:
“Hateful, … material will not be considered.“
Hateful material about what some Germans did in the early 1940’s? Hateful is one of those squishy, arbitrary, subjective terms used everywhere else to ban what someone doesn’t like but can’t find a reason. Some facts and truth can be considered “hateful”. So what is the point in doing SJW-lite?
Same if not worse here:
“‘Conspiracy Theory,’ ‘fringe,’ or other material will not be considered at this stage, as I do not have the infrastructure to properly handle it.”
You can’t even define it so it will be another “I personally don’t like it so I reject it” catch-all as SJW-lite.
No, if you want to CORRECT Wikipedia, then reject objectively false material, have opinion labeled as such, insure citations or other independent confirmation (which can contradict – see your vaccine coverage – or is that a fringe conspiracy?).
Again, see InfoGalactic.com, or my suggestion would see if you and/or Andrew Torba can create a custom version of Dissenter that would be Stickypedia that would overlay Wikipedia pages with “sticky notes” dscribing the inaccuracy with links
@tz: You must be fun at parties!
Yes, infogalactic dot com.
they’re already doing this.
Infogalactic.com, where the President of France is François Hollande and the Prime Minister is François Hollande, Where Muhammad Ali lives on, and where Avengers: Infinity War is yet to screen.
I think I’ll go somewhere else for information.
I second tz. Infogalactic is a fork of Wikipedia. Your entry there is at:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Sharyl_Attkisson