[ordx]

Same thing is happening in Russian Wikipedia. Majority of articles are written from the official pro-Kremlin point of view and any attempts to change that are blocked. Given that there are millions of Russian-speaking people live outside of Russia, something like this split needs to be done.

[zozbot234]

The uncomfortable truth is that many average Russians support "the official pro-Kremlin" outlook. Similarly, if the Chinese Wikipedia was not blocked by the government, it would probably look a lot like Baidu Baike, and all the articles about "sensitive" topics would be whitewashed and socially harmonised by the "great human flesh search engine crowd". The Chinese government is actually doing Wikipedians a favor by keeping the nationalist masses from accessing the site!

[yorwba]

The article argues that it was the split of Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia into country-specific Wikipedias that fractured the community and enabled the takeover of the Croatian Wikipedia.

[cosmodisk]

I remember having a very heated discussion on some pretty recent historical events with a few Russians. At some point I thought I'm in some sort of an alternative reality.. However, eventually,after almost smacking each other faces, we figured that the way we were taught at school was miles and miles apart and they didn't know any alternative opinions. It took quite some effort to at least acknowledge it.

[varjag]

I concur. It's usable if you want to know how T-72B2 differs from T-72B3 but is heavily editorialized for most non-technical topics, not even directly political.