Month: July 2026
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WikiCritic review: Unmoved mover
This is a sample encyclopedia article review written to support both Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum and a new project I am working on for the Knowledge Standards Foundation. This page should illustrate what a fairly complete review of a Wikipedia article would look like, according to the recommended standard of the new WikiCritic system I am building.…
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Larry Sanger, Questions and Answers about Genesis
Larry Sanger, Questions and Answers about Genesis, written between April 2021 and September 2022; unpublished. pdf If you are interested in looking at this, please read the following preface. [more…]
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Wikipedia’s new CEO says “the door is open,” but they banned me for walking through it
This was initially an X.com thread. In it, I respond to a July 16, 2026 New York Times article on the Wikimedia Foundation’s pick for a new CEO. “The door is open” to “more dialogue” with conservatives, says new Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan in remarks to the New York Times. In the article, there’s…
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Even Claude finds bias throughout Wikipedia
This afternoon, I performed a simple experiment with Claude Opus 4.8 Max. Prompt: “Define ten culture war topics, chosen as a group for breadth (not weighted toward any one discipline). Then look up the main Wikipedia article on each topic and read its lede section. For each, find the two most clearly biased statements it…
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I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned
A piece that originally appeared in Washington Examiner, July 8, 2026; the above is their title. My title for it would be “How a Mob of Anonymous Bullies Controls Wikipedia for Power and Profit.” I have been permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia, the website I named and led in 2001. Yes, really. I can hear…
