User:Kfander

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As a long-time meta editor with the former Open Directory Project, Wikipedia seemed like the ideal project for me. However, while I will occasionally correct a typo or replace a bad URL, I have found that most of my time in Wikipedia has been a disappointing waste, and it's been a few years since I have felt the inclination to flush any more of my efforts down the toilet of Wikipedia. Over the years, it seems that Wikipedia has become the domain of an elite group who don't really want any help from anyone else, and who take pleasure in wasting the time of anyone who attempts to participate.

Despite Wikipedia's voluminous statement on what its elite view as a neutral point of view, its entries on any topic that even remotely references politics, religion, and several other subjects, is decidedly partisan. A partisan view that is shared by the elite does not define a neutral point of view. It just looks neutral to those who agree with it, and no one else matters. This extends, also, to which topics are considered worthy of an entry.

Newcomers are not welcome. Not only is there almost no means through which a newcomer can attempt to make a point, but there is also no one at Wikipedia who is interested in listening. Contributing to this unwelcoming atmosphere is the fact that most decisions are made by automated processes programmed to enforce the viewpoints of the elite.

Nevertheless, Wikipedia has made some remarkable achievements. I doubt that it will continue much longer, however. I say this not out of some insider knowledge, which I most certainly do not have, given the impossibility of getting inside, but because the project has become too large for the elite to handle by themselves, and I can't imagine why anyone new would stick around after the reception their efforts are given.