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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

One would think that leftists, socialists, communists, tankies, and/or others would come up with supplementary wikis such as Conservapedia or RationalWiki that are good.

and, FWIW:

Category:Wikidebates

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Wikidebates

e.g.

Is capitalism sustainable?

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Is_capitalism_sustainable%3F

It's sad how little news there is relatively little news in Wikinews ( https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ).

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

supplementary wikis

We have them, e.g. ProleWiki, but good luck trying to explain to the average western Wikipedia user that for certain geopolitical topics they might be worth checking out and contrasted with Wikipedia. My problem isn't the lack of alternatives, my problem is the anticommunist and pro-western bias in Wikipedia, the most used encyclopedia, in geopolitically charged topics.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmmm,

Let's see:

pw:Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an imperialist propaganda outlet and disinformation website presenting itself as an encyclopedia launched in 2001 by bourgeois libertarians Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia is maintained by a predominantly white male population, of which about 1% are responsible for 80% of edits. It has also been linked to corporate and governmental manipulation and imperialist agendas, including the U.S. State Department, World Bank,[1] FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department.[2][3]

Wow. 😁🙂

and while I'm at it:

cp:Wikipedia

Wikipedia, is an online wiki-based encyclopedia hosted and owned by the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation and financially supported by grants from left-leaning foundations plus an aggressive annual online fundraising drive.[1] Big Pharma pushes its agenda and profits by paying anonymous editors to smear its opponents there, while others are moronic internet trolls who include teenagers and the unemployed.[2] As such, it projects a liberal—and, in some cases, even socialist, Communist, and Nazi-sympathizing—worldview, which is totally at odds with conservative reality and rationality.[3]

pw:Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path

The party organized its own militia, the People's Guerrilla Army and claimed to have begun a protracted people's war against the bourgeois government of Peru since 1980, with the intention of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.[1] Throughout its period of highest activity, the party frequently engaged in terrorist tactics, and has committed brutal and violent attacks on peasants, including children.[2] The class composition of the party consisted in mostly petty-bourgeois intellectuals, and the growth of the party was closely linked with student movements in universities.[3]

My problem isn’t the lack of alternatives, my problem is the anticommunist and pro-western bias in Wikipedia, the most used encyclopedia, in geopolitically charged topics.

and I suppose the supplements are a way, however their effectiveness/ineffectiveness.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago

You may disagree with the first statement on being an imperialist propaganda outlet, but the rest of information is relevant.

I don't get your point of posting the article on the Shining Path, though