Category: Wikipedia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nature Agreed to Publish My Wikipedia Letter—Then 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,
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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 all—and that the enforced position is not, in fact, neutral?
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A note on NPOV, ledes, and the erasure of dissent
The following comment originally appeared on a Wikipedia talk page. Posted on X: please retweet. I looked again at Wikipedia’s Gaza genocide article and, as I said last year, I don’t believe it
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Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I’ve started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia. So I know a thing or
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On Wikipedia, the God of the Bible Is the Head of a Pantheon
My God is called, in the Bible, Yahweh. That is, Yahweh is a speculative transliteration of the Hebrew name we know only by the vowel-less “tetragrammaton,” YHWH, or יְהוָה, which in generations past
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On the cybersecurity subcommittee’s Wikipedia investigation
Congress is now investigating Wikipedia. More precisely, according to a letter dated August 27, 2025 and sent by Rep James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to the CEO of the Wikimedia
