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[[File:Wikipedia logo.png|226x226px|Wikipedia - ''the free encyclopedia''|right|frameless]] | [[File:Wikipedia logo.png|226x226px|Wikipedia - ''the free encyclopedia''|right|frameless]] | ||
'''Wikipedia''' is an [[Bourgeois media|imperialist propaganda outlet]] and | '''Wikipedia''' is an [[Bourgeois media|imperialist propaganda outlet]] and fake news, disinformation, website presenting itself as an "encyclopedia" launched in 2001 by [[bourgeois]] [[Libertarianism|libertarians]] [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]]. Wikipedia is maintained by a predominantly white male population, of which about 1% are responsible for 80% of edits. It has also been linked to corporate and governmental manipulation and [[Imperialism|imperialist]] agendas, including the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]], [[The World Bank|World Bank]],<ref name=":5">{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]], [[Max Blumenthal]]|newspaper=[[The Grayzone]]|title=Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO|date=2020-06-11|url=https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816135825/https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/|archive-date=2022-08-16|retrieved=2022-09-10}}</ref> [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], and New York Police Department.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Stansfield Smith|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=US national security state censoring anti-imperialists to control ‘compatible left’|date=2022-07-02|url=https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830195608/https://multipolarista.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/|archive-date=2022-08-30|retrieved=2022-09-10}}</ref> | ||
Its popularity means that it is a prime target for misinformation campaigns by state actors or corporate interests. This was, in part, the reasoning behind starting [[ProleWiki]]. | Its popularity means that it is a prime target for misinformation campaigns by state actors or corporate interests. This was, in part, the reasoning behind starting [[ProleWiki]]. | ||
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=== Alternatives === | === Alternatives === | ||
* [ | * [[Baidu Baike]] (Chinese) | ||
* [ | * [[EcuRed]] (Spanish) | ||
* [ | * [[Leftypedia]] (English) | ||
* [ | * [[ProleWiki]] (multilingual) | ||
* [ | * [[Ruwiki]] (multilingual) | ||
* [ | * [[Qiuwen Baike]] (Chinese) | ||
==References== | ==References== |