{"id":955008,"date":"2025-08-14T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955008"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:48:29","slug":"wikipedias-neutrality-has-always-been-complicated-new-rules-will-make-questioning-it-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/wikipedias-neutrality-has-always-been-complicated-new-rules-will-make-questioning-it-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8216;neutrality&#8217; has always been complicated. New rules will make questioning it harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: Last month, the American non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia issued draft guidelines for researchers studying how neutral Wikipedia is. But instead of supporting open inquiry, the guidelines reveal just how unaware the Wikimedia Foundation is of its own influence. These new rules tell researchers \u2013 some based in universities, some at non-profit organisations or elsewhere \u2013 not just how to study Wikipedia\u2019s neutrality, but what they should study and how to interpret their results. That\u2019s a worrying move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: Last month, the American non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia issued draft guidelines for researchers studying how neutral Wikipedia is. But instead of supporting open inquiry, the guidelines reveal just how unaware the Wikimedia Foundation is of its own influence. These new rules tell researchers \u2013 some based in universities, some at non-profit organisations or elsewhere \u2013 not just how to study Wikipedia\u2019s neutrality, but what they should study and how to interpret their results. That\u2019s a worrying move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}