Post #1195288
2026-04-06 19:17 UTC
> We really do take neutrality seriously
Well, semi-seriously. In the Russian-language wikipedia it is forbidden to talk of Ukraine as an independent country. I don't consider that terribly neutral. (They did have a vote about this, and because the Russian-language Wikipedia has more users from the Russia than from other countries, the Russian "opinion" about this won the vote. But it's absolutely not neutral anyway and with such a rule in place, it's ridiculous to claim that Wikipedia is really neutral. It is neutral-ish, though, yes.)
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-04-06 19:24
I should've clarified "the English Wikipedia", since I can't speak for all the languages (although all the other ones I've regularly visited have been fine). The English Wikipedia sets its own policies and guidelines, and the other languages are free to choose their policies and guidelines (within the bounds of the WMF). Ours on neutrality is [as follows:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view)