The general premise of Wikipedia is the same as that of utilitarian thinker John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). Mill believed that "...the interests of truth require a diversity of opinions." (see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill-moral-political/) and that freedom of expression would, in his opinion, necessarily lead to truth, thus contradicting the already well established Christian edict that it is truth obtained by humble access through continuance in righteousness (as opposed to sin) that leads to freedom. By putting the cart before the horse in this way, Mill successfully altered western thinking, and the same inverted logic was subsequently used in Hitler's concentration camps ("Work makes you Free").
The problem with both Mill's approach, and that of Wikipedia, is that there is no accountability for getting it wrong.
If Wikipedia was however a legal entity producing a product for sale, it would be a different matter. There would be not only legal consequences for publishing information that was knowingly false and misleading in a material particular, but financial consequences for bringing itself into public ridicule and disrepute.
Wikipedia is yet again asking for public donations to continue its extremely low quality of product involving gross misinformation and abusive moderation. I have never felt that Wikipedia could be more reliable than old and discredited academic texts and maintaining only what was known in the past. What I never expected was that it could be such an potent propaganda device for gangs of ultra conservatives determined to censor anything that smacked of meritorious independent thinking.
It is this hypocrisy in its censorial moderating of independent thinkers that gives Wikipedia the reputation it has today, of being the worlds greatest source of 'fake facts'. Wikipedia, in its articles and in general, by virtue of its male dominated militarised moderation, cannot deal with criticism or feedback. Now it has the gall to ask for your money in order to continue abusing you with its censorial moderation rules.
Contributing to Wikipedia is to risk casting your pearls before swine. Freedom of expression is the last thing Wikipedia is actually good for unless its already been expressed somewhere else by someone else, and preferably, at least a few decades ago.
