[SKRIVA] SvD Wallraffar på Wikipedia
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:44:22 +0200
Artikel om hur SvD undersöker Wikipedias funktion och ev pålitlighet:
http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/svd-testade-varldens-storsta-uppslagsverk-se-om-han-avslojades_5064389.svd
Journalisten Adam Svanell skriver en massa orimliga lögner om sig själv på
uppslagsverket, och får tydligen hållas...
Tyvärr har inte Wikipedia längre statusen från några år sedan, då man kunde
jämföras med t ex Encyclopedia Britannica. Det faktum att många började använda
Wikipedia och se dess information som pålitlig, gjorde att allehanda parter
ville redigera om till sin fördel, eller rent av sprida propaganda.
Ett exempel är hur en viss William Connolley, aktivist i miljörörelsen,
suttit och redigerat om 5500 artiklar (!) för att förvränga all miljöanknuten
info till "grönistisk" vinkel, inte minst vad gäller den vid detta laget mycket
skakiga hypotesen om "global uppvärmning". Se t ex:
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/media-manipulation/5923-wikipedias-climate-doctor
"Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band
members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He
rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on
the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate
models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on
Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the
hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and
on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred
Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among
his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as
Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His
control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained
at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual
impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he
removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his
hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often
had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found
themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing
conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with
Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the
missionary wing of the global warming movement."
M a o syns Wikipedia ha till viktiga delar rasat ihop under sitt rykte och
tyngd. I ämnen som är det minsta kontroversiella bör man ta den med en nypa
salt som källa.
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