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Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger Publishes Reform Plan, Citing Ideological Capture

An essay in The Free Press argues a small cadre of powerful editors steers policy and content in ways that undermine neutrality.

Overview

  • Sanger released a nine-point plan that calls for abandoning Wikipedia’s consensus model, eliminating the approved sources list, ending editor anonymity, and creating an elected editorial legislature.
  • He alleges the site suppresses conservative and religious viewpoints and describes a prevailing bias he labels GASP—Globalist, Academic, Secular, Progressive.
  • Coverage highlights last month’s Irina Zarutska article dispute, with Wikipedia noting nearly 350 revisions in 24 hours as editors debated deletion and wording.
  • Sanger contends that 62 accounts hold outsized authority over administrators and enforcement, and that only 14.5% of these use real full names.
  • The Daily Mail reports it received no immediate comment from Wikipedia or Sanger beyond the essay, and broader institutional responses to the proposals were not detailed in the coverage.