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Article: Wikipedia's Arabic-language version skews the Middle East

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DAVID SHAMAH
Jerusalem Post
11-25-2008
Headline: Wikipedia's Arabic-language version skews the Middle East
Byline: DAVID SHAMAH
Edition; Daily
Section: Economics
Page: 18

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 -- I almost hate to do this - after my last round with Wikipedia, they're going to think I'm picking on them. Last June, I wrote about accusations that pro-Israel organizations were somehow trying to manipulate the on-line encyclopedia's entries to make Israel "look good"; the truth, it seemed to me, was that much of the information on Wikipedia regarding Israel is skewed, with terms and descriptions weighted against Israel taken as "fact" and legions of pages containing built-in prejudices that ...

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