I just learned about a 2021 article titled “Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia.”
Excerpt:
“Larry Sanger, the man who co-founded Wikipedia, has cautioned that the website can’t always be trusted to give people the truth.
He said it can give a “reliably establishment point of view on pretty much everything.”
“Can you trust it to always give you the truth? Well, it depends on what you think the truth is,” said Mr Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 alongside Jimmy Wales.
He told Lockdown TV that “if only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power. And they do that.””
