The Wikimedia Foundation, owners of Wikipedia, formed a working group focused on neutrality policy at the end of March with site co-founder Jimmy Wales as chair. Its objective will be to study the neutrality policies in place on different-language Wikipedias and other Foundation-owned sites to develop a global standard. Although citing various left-wing concerns about neutrality, the Foundation omitted any reference to the site’s own leftist political bias.
Creation of the working group was first announced in an official Wikimedia Foundation blog post titled “Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view” on March 27. The post cited discussion about the truthfulness of information online and general trust as a recent trend this year with “threats to neutrality” claimed to be rising. Arguing different communities at Foundation-owned
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