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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The Wikipedia is arguably the first mainstream wiki encyclopedia and certainly the most well known of all wikis. It is a truly international effort and a testament to the success that can be achieved with the mediawiki software. Wikipedia reports having 13,000 active contributors working on over 1,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages.

From the Wikipedia website, it states;

“ Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which anybody with Internet access can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in some important ways. In particular, mature articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while other (often fledgling) articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopaedic content or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this in order to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation which has been recently added and not yet removed. ”

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Anticreation Bias on Wikipedia

Many of the CreationWiki authors have expressed frustration with Wikipedia and its double standards. Wikipedia claims to take a neutral point of view or NPOV and in the long-run it seems to follow it quite well for most topics. However when it comes to creation science and intelligent design it exposes the hypocrisy with a consistent negative point of view. This bias simply results from contributors who do not like or in some cases show a clear disdain and annoyance for all things biblical. Sadly this sentiment extends to the system operators or sysops as well. An example of such is that the classification of creation science and Intelligent design being pseudosciences. A rather standard anti-creationist tactic, one implimented by the authorities of Wikipedia.

An example of this negative bias towards creationism and ID within the pages of Wikipedia was the vote to delete article titled, "Views of Creationists and mainstream scientists compared." Not only did the voters, or what are editors of Wikipedia feel free to vote on the basis of their bias but not even the authorities, such as sysops and administrators felt the need to remind them that they should be voting on the merits of the article, not their personal opinion on creationism.

Furthermore, the contributor who proposed that the article be deleted, the person had already vandalised creationist views listed there. Some of the comments in support of the vote to delete were:

“ The title of the page is inherently wrong, as it suggests that creationism is a scientific view. ”
“ ...comparing religious doctrine to scientific theory is comparing apples and oranges, and thus non-encyclopedic. ”
“ By opposing "creationism" to "mainstream science", the article title suggests that creationism is a scientific POV. ”
“ Creationism is not science. ”
“ Delete, since creationism is ultimately based on untestable religious beliefs... ”

Another example

NPOV at Wikipedia would seem to mean rather that they conform to the POV of the editors. Almost all conservative Christian institutions and individuals get treated differently at best or thought to be believers in only lies at the worst. The Trinity School of Apologetics and Theology reportedly had a long battle with Wikipedia over numerous false reports published on their site.

In spite of documented evidence to the contrary they were forced to contact the Trustees of the Wiki before the articles that contained slander and libel against them were finally removed.

CreationWiki on Wikipedia

Wikipedia previously had an article about CreationWiki, which has since been deleted. The article was typically found expressing the anti-creationist sentiment said to be found there and retained a clear POV criticism of CreationWiki. Subsequent articles about CreationWiki have been posted that were also rapidly deleted.

In April 2006 there was a proposal to delete the article, and the end result of the discussion (with ten votes to keep and seven to delete) was "No consensus (defaults to Keep)". However, another proposal to delete in August 2006 succeeded, with four votes to delete and two to merge to a separate article on Christian Wikis. However, that latter article was itself deleted in early November 2006.

The behavior clearly demonstrates the aforementioned anticreation views of the Wikipedia editors. It is also noteworthy that the Wikipedia editor who first recommended the deletion of the CreationWiki article is the self-proclaimed head of the Wikipedia Neutrality Project.

Interwiki Linking

Wikipedia has been set up for Interwiki linking. A link like [[Wikipedia:Main Page]] will appear like this: Wikipedia:Main Page and redirect you to Wikipedia's Main Page. To Create a titled link, use a format like [[Wikipedia:Creationism|Creationism]], which will simply appear as: Creationism.

prefix direction usage example
wikipedia http://wikipedia.org/wiki/ [[wikipedia:Main Page]]

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