Sanger has frequently criticized the platform's editorial neutrality
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced he was indefinitely banned from editing the site after he attempted to fight against rampant anti-Israel bias on the platform.
The information war is real. Big Tech and online encyclopedias are rewriting history and silencing anyone who defends Israel. Don't rely on biased platforms for the truth.
Many users criticized Wikipedia as garbage or biased after it banned co-founder Larry Sanger over an Israel dispute, while others welcomed the ban or pushed Grokipedia as a better alternative.
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Incredibly good new. Are we getting our Wikipedia back?
.@lsanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, was banned from the site indefinitely on Monday for promoting an initiative that, among other things, aims to prevent the site from being biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel views, he told @JNS_org.
“Wikipedia has become more of a mob-rule anarchy than ever,” Sanger said. “In the kangaroo court in which a mob ousted me, Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they are above trivial details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication and so forth.”
My latest on Wiki for JNS: 🧵
@HananyaNaftali muslim and communist money and manipulation online is going crazy these days its coordinated
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announced he was indefinitely banned from editing the site after he attempted to fight against rampant anti-Israel bias on the platform.
The information war is real. Big Tech and online encyclopedias are rewriting history and silencing anyone who defends Israel. Don't rely on biased platforms for the truth.
@BerylASims @HananyaNaftali Fighting genocide & standing up for humanity is a free for all highway.
@ElJefeDelToro @HananyaNaftali Stay in your lane.
@HananyaNaftali Is he zionist? Cos that might be the reason he's banned.
Zionists are known to not tell the truth. An untrustworthy bunch.
@HananyaNaftali @KatyaSedgwick Then who is running Wikipedia??? The US govt needs to shut it down, I’m serious.
.@lsanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, was banned from the site indefinitely on Monday for promoting an initiative that, among other things, aims to prevent the site from being biased against “currently disfavored views and groups,” including Jewish and pro-Israel views, he told @JNS_org.
“Wikipedia has become more of a mob-rule anarchy than ever,” Sanger said. “In the kangaroo court in which a mob ousted me, Wikipedia’s administrators showed that they are above trivial details like formal charges, a designated prosecutor, basic decorum, distinction between prosecution and judge, dispassionate adjudication and so forth.”
My latest on Wiki for JNS: 🧵
@HananyaNaftali I recently looked up Viktor Frankl because I was reading his book. He was a survivor of 4 death camps and lost his whole family. Wikipedia wrote an extensive story on him & then I came across a paragraph that questioned whether he was ever actually in Auschwitz. I was shocked.
@HananyaNaftali It should be unbelievable, however I am sure in the present environment it is true. Go 100% Grokapedia!
@HananyaNaftali @alcibiades500 Also to point out Sanger is not Jewish, he was raised Lutheran. Anyone who speaks the truth can get cancelled.
@ElJefeDelToro @HananyaNaftali "An untrustworthy bunch."
Sanger submitted an application on Friday for community approval on his proposed “WikiProject Intellectual Diversity” for contributors who believe in helping “reinforce Wikipedia’s original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity.”
The crowdsourced online encyclopedia defines a “WikiProject” as being a “group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia” focused on specific topic areas.
The initiative had a series of goals, including making Wikipedia’s decision-making processes more transparent, expanding the number of usable sources and reinforcing “genuine neutrality.”
After Sanger posted on social media that Wikipedians were deliberating on his initiative and shared a link to the discussion, he was reported to the “administrators’ noticeboard-incidents” forum, where editors accused his post of being “canvassing.” Wikipedia defines that as being a “notification done with the intention of influencing the outcome of a discussion in a particular way.”
Editors also accused Sanger of canvassing after he said in an interview on an Indian podcast that those who want to challenge what he sees as an anti-Hindu bias on Wikipedia should join the site and his WikiProject and “learn how to play the game.”
@HananyaNaftali So you are mad that he doesn’t get to rewrite history? What?
If it was up to you, he would say that we are all slaves to the “chosen people”.
@ElJefeDelToro @HananyaNaftali Ya, right. I Jewish man co-founds a free online encyclopedia - for everyone to benefit. Than comes a bunch of Islamist scammers, usurp his work, ruin it - and when the creator tries to save his creation - bun him. The whole history of "palestine" in 1 example
@HananyaNaftali Larry Sanger quit Wikipedia at least 7 years ago. He made his online reputation on it!! "I'm such a hero! I left that backward place!" You're telling me that all this time he's actually been allowed to edit entries?? He's such a disingenuous sneak!
@HananyaNaftali I have already stopped contributing to Wikipedia. Recommend that others do the same.
@shlomitlir, a researcher at the University of Haifa who specializes in Wikipedia, is a member of Sanger’s proposed initiative. She told JNS that she was drawn to the initiative because it “engages with the same questions I have been working on.”
Lir thinks that Wikipedia’s banning of Sanger is “deeply alarming.”
“Even if one thinks his wording or tactics were imperfect, treating such public advocacy as grounds for an indefinite block is a profound overreaction,” she said. “His permanent blocking can be read symbolically as an act of patricide, highlighting the urgent need for reform.”
“We did not want to push Wikipedia to be pro-anything, just not exclusively pro-GASP,” he said, referring to a “globalist, academic, secular and progressive” point of view.
Sanger also told JNS that he aimed to ensure that the site is “not biased against currently disfavored views and groups,” including some Hindus, Christians, Jews, Zionists and those who are politically conservative.
“It is ridiculous that after Oct. 7, antisemitism became open and even mandatory on Wikipedia,” he told JNS. “I have my criticisms of Israel, but you don’t report one side and call yourself neutral.”
“Titling an article ‘Gaza genocide’ and burying any mention of the Israeli perspective deep in the article is not neutral,” Sanger said. “Nor is it neutral to title an article ‘Yahweh’ and say that this was the chief god of an ancient Near East pantheon, in Wikipedia’s own voice, with no mention of Christian or Jewish perspectives, when we worship Yahweh.” (The Tetragrammaton is a Hebrew divine name that appears in the Torah.)
