I have written about this subject several times over the years, but it just keeps frustrating me because nothing has changed over the years.
Wikipedia is one of the most influential online websites in the world. In terms of where people search for information it's very easily in the top 10, probably even the top 5 websites out there. And the vast, vast majority of people tend to consider it a reliable source of information.
This means hundreds of millions of people, perhaps even billions of people, from all around the world, are getting information from Wikipedia. And, thus, are being influenced by whatever is written in Wikipedia. Thus Wikipedia has an extraordinarily high responsibility to be neutral and not try to push some kind of political agenda.
Since at least 2014 or even earlier that has not been the case, however. Like with so many other major websites it was overtaken completely by far-leftist activists, and all editors critical of the far left were either expunged or intimidated into silence and complacency. Since back in those days Wikipedia has been pushing the far-leftist narrative heavily and obnoxiously, and when it comes to political subjects that the far left hates, Wikipedia has been weaponized and made into a supply depot. By this I mean that all the Wikipedia pages about people, groups and subjects that the far left hates have been converted into endless lists and collections of irrelevant minutia that far-leftist activists can use to attack that subject in particular. These articles are in no way encyclopedic (even though they try to masquerade themselves as such by using nicer wording and layout and boatloads of "citations", all of them to heavily politically biased far-leftist sources, of course).
I have written a length essay detailing all of these details here (an article that I originally posted to my Wikipedia user page, and which was very quickly removed by some rogue high-ranking moderator even though the article contained no infringing material, no rules violations, and was explicitly allowed by Wikipedia rules, and the moderator in question could not cite a single rules violation with it.) I recommend reading that linked blog post if you haven't already, as it's in my opinion a very good summary of everything that's wrong with Wikipedia.
What frustrates me is that nobody, and I mean nobody, seems to be interested. Nobody was interested in 2015 (at the height of Gamergate), nobody was interested in 2016 (when Trump was elected), nobody was interested in 2020 (when Biden was elected), nobody is interested to this day. None of the hundreds of vocal anti-leftist youtubers, bloggers, writers and political commentators are interested. People who have made almost daily anti-leftist videos for the past 10 years, oftentimes about very minor things and incidents, have never, ever made a single video about the political bias in Wikipedia. Not one.
Perhaps the only exception I can think of is a video by Steven Crowder, aptly named "EXPOSED: Wikipedia's Bias Tested And PROVEN!"
Great! Finally they are starting to talk about it...
Except that that was about it. That one video, a couple of videos by other people commenting on it and... then nothing. Crickets. Everybody just quickly forgot about it, and moved to some "more important" things, like some random nobody in some random no-name university writing a controversial tweet, which about five people read. Like they always do.
In recent years the anti-leftists have started gaining some ground in the fight against the leftist self-destructive totalitarian fascism. Such as state legislators examining the possibility of stopping the castration of children by law, and parents actively protesting the indoctrination and grooming of children in public schools.
Those are extraordinarily important things (much more so than some stupid website), and it's amazing that finally something might be happening. However, why is still nobody doing anything about Wikipedia? Not even talking about it. Nothing. That one Crowder video was about it, and everybody quickly forgot about it.
The subject seems so uninteresting for some reason that you can go and contact any of the big or semi-big anti-leftist youtubers and suggest that as a topic, and there's a 99% chance you'll get completely ignored. From the remaining 1% there's a 99% chance that you might get some acknowledgement from the author, but who will then proceed to do nothing and just forget about it. Instead, they'll just proceed once again to pick on some random inconsequential tweet from some random nobody in some random no-name university. Because that's so much more important and interesting than the rampant far-leftist political bias in Wikipedia.
Just try it, and you'll see.
Why? Your guess is as good as mine.
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