Why has Wikipedia achieved a moderate consensus on topics while all other internet platforms polarize? 🕶Wikipedia doesn’t filter what users see, so each article is exposed to different views 🙅Rules & norms subtly encourage extremists to leave, retaining moderate content & users
Wikipedia encourages interaction among political opponents via its discussion pages which operate with defined rules. As a result, polarized crowds lead to BETTER articles. Articles with strong left & right partisans have more intense discussion & more thoughtful compromise.
@emollick I guess trying to get accurate anatomy of the clitoris included makes me an extremist. 😂
@emollick That's interesting but I wonder if it's not overlooking the nature of the platform. Not sure if you could apply this to Twitter if you wanted by example: the "social contract" is totally different
@emollick Oh, I know this one! Wikipedia is not trying to make money! 😇😜
@emollick Nonsense--Wikipedia creates the illusion of non-polarization by hosting copious material on completely non-polarizing topics, while being just as polarized on the rest. I've yet to encounter a single topic on which other Internet platforms polarize but Wikipedia doesn't.