[Sorry for the resend, screwed up the headers when I sent this on Friday.]
For your review and or comment! :)
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http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/06/neutrality.html
* Is the Wikipedia Neutral? - an (early draft) extension of A Case
of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking to
tease apart what is meant by something being neutral, and is it
the right term to describe Wikipedia efforts:
Claims of neutrality and accusations of bias are common themes of
contemporary discourse about the media, government, education, and
technology. In this essay I extend earlier work on the
collaborative culture of Wikipedia (an on-line and free
encyclopedia) to specifically focus on the fundamental but often
misunderstood notion of neutrality.... This essay is inspired by
earlier debates on neutrality of technical standards, literature on
bias in technical systems, my present fascination with this
Wikipedia norm and a change in my belief that while an important
concept, the label of neutrality was an unfortunate coinage in the
Wikipedia context.
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