Political deletionism at Wikipedia
What content should be in an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia? One can contrast two extreme views on the matter: Inclusivism: just about everything should be included that can be properly…
Unfinished Wikipedia FAQ on IQ etc.
Some time ago, I was building a large reference FAQ for use on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, some activist admins came along and deleted it. The archived version is here. The background…
Berkeley lecturer tries to get students to push anti-Trump POV on Wikipedia, gets indefinitely banned instead
Editing Wikipedia is done by humans, and sometimes these humans have various ideas they want to push. I have covered a few questionable cases before on Twitter, but will repost…
Cross-validating the Human Accomplishment dataset with Wikipedia
(Partial Rnotebook) Last year I convinced Charles Murray to share some of his data underlying his great book Human Accomplishment. He put it on OSF, where it remains available. So…