r/whenthe • u/shadow_fen you should join r/goldentrump • Jun 28 '26

the daily whenthe Delete! Delete! Deleeeeeeeeete!

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u/--PhoenixFire-- Jun 28 '26

This is about Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia but left the project all the way back in 2002. Since then, he's criticized Wikipedia for supposedly having a "leftist bias" and being "establishment propaganda".

Recently, his Wikipedia account was banned from editing for life after a lengthy discussion. The reason given was "off-site canvasing" - that is, he was going around encouraging people to edit Wikipedia en masse.

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u/NicholasWildeRails bringing the Morning Thunder Jun 28 '26

Unsurprising the conservative nutjob is also a sore loser

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u/Diedrogen Jun 28 '26

Didn't someone create a version of Wikipedia with a more conservative bent? Was that person involved?

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u/Indercarnive Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

There's been a few attempts. I think the most notable recent one was Grokopedia from Musk that's just quite literally a copy/paste of wikipedia by Grok except for whatever talking points Elon personally takes issue with

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u/ollervo100 Jun 28 '26

That version was running wikipedia articles through an llm with prompts such as "write this with a conservative spin".