[blackeyeblitzar]

I definitely do not understand the internal structure, process, and politics of Wikimedia (either the community or foundation). But my feeling as a long time user and donor is that Wikipedia should remain a neutral and apolitical resource if it is to be the world’s encyclopedia. However, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend over the years with Wikipedia’s English content becoming more skewed. Various articles have significant biases, mostly leaning towards the American political left, and you can see how the edits and discussions in talk pages got things to that point. Wikipedia seems to be heavily influenced and controlled by a small set of highly active and powerful users who seem to treat control of Wikipedia as a personal mission. I see shades of that even here in this movement charter.

For example, in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter#Responsibil... it looks like the Movement Charter proposes responsibilities like this which seem very politically biased:

> facilitating inclusion, equity, and diversity within their community;

It also seems like it is biased towards highly active and engaged users - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...:

> "'The quorum' is only 2% (!) of the eligible voters, and who know how many of them are the affiliates members"

[nubinetwork]

> Wikipedia seems to be heavily influenced and controlled by a small set of highly active and powerful users who seem to treat control of Wikipedia as a personal mission.

It's been like that for decades, contributing edits is a waste of time, because they will just get reverted.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

Wikipedia isn't apolitical because it is controlled and edited by people who don't have jobs

[StimDeck]

Well I can’t know what you’re talking about precisely because you didn’t give any examples, but my sense is that people involved in things like Wikipedia are going to lean (American) left because Wikipedia is socialism and it embraces progress. Most of the rest of the world is left of the American left and Wikipedia is also international, so that would exacerbate things to some degree.

[add-sub-mul-div]

Also in the US the right is just generally less popular. It hasn't won the popular vote in 20 years.

[panja]

Being inclusive and having diverse input is now a left wing bias lol

[bdjsiqoocwk]

> facilitating inclusion, equity, and diversity within their community;

Would you prefer it if it excluded some people, and the ones that it includes are a homogeneous group?