Category: Projects
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Deep Dive Bible: a new Bible study app
Today I’m launching a new, full-featured Bible study appânot a business enterprise, but a gift to the Church: A full-featured app made in six weeks? While I’m working on other projects? I’m almost as surprised as (I imagine) you are. So, here’s the story of how this project basically popped into existence. Well, maybe it…
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A few notes about Wikipediaâs article âCitizendiumâ
Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium This is yet another article that looks credible and authoritative to someone who knows little about the subject. But, in fact, it’s simply an awful article. For shame, Wikipedia, for shame. GradesOverall: DâCompleteness: FCompetency: DNeutrality: FScholarship: CâCurrency: FSimplicity: C Credentials: founder of Citizendium, co-founder of Wikipedia; other experience with online encyclopedia projects and…
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WikiCritic comment: my recollection of the Seigenthaler incident
WikiCritic commentPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_SeigenthalerRelevant credential: co-founder of WikipediaFirst-hand witness: I received a telephone call from John Seigenthaler, Sr. in the fall of 2005 regarding the defamatory content in his Wikipedia biography.Comment tags: talkback (maybe?) My comment is not a review of the article, but a little piece of history about it. It was, I vaguely recall,…
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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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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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Knowledge in an Age of Black Boxes
This is a keynote delivered June 30, 2026, at the Microsoft conference Infinity 365 in Salzburg, Austria. The assignment was to analyze how the transition from Wikipedia to AI would change how we get knowledge. I began by analyzing these (i.e., Wikipedia and AI systems generally) as two more recent epistemic institutions, each with risks,…
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Nature Agreed to Publish My Wikipedia LetterâThen Ghosted Me
Earlier this year, leading scientific journal Nature published an editorial lavishing effusive praise on Wikipedia, writing that it is “an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem.” Naturally (no pun intended), as co-founder, I had to respond, knowing that Wikipedia is increasingly “poisoned” itself. (I call myself ex-founder; I have been called the Emmanuel Goldstein…
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The Principles of Reading Order: A Research Program
Abstract: Much of education may be reduced to a sequencing problem: Given a set of books, in what order should they be read? This question admits of surprisingly rigorous treatment. We can identify several distinct types of dependency between booksâtopical, historical, procedural, motivational, and supplementalâand state principles governing each. These principles in turn suggest a…
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On genuine neutrality versus enforced consensus
There is a very serious problem about what goes under the title “consensus” in Wikipedia. Does not the very fact that a supposed consensus can represent a single, controversial position, and that it needs enforcement, suggest that it is not really consensus at allâand that the enforced position is not, in fact, neutral?
