Hoskinson Accused Wikipedia Of Censoring After Refusing To List ADA

The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson accused Wikipedia of Censorship after the refusal to List Cardano and he vented his disappointment over the refusal so let’s read more about it in the latest Cardano ADA news.

Hoskinson released a discovery that the online encyclopedia sees Cardano as lacking credibility and what’s even more, the scientific credentials according to Hoskinson there is more at a play than being an inadequate source data on the project. The internet entrepreneurs Jimmy Whales and Larry Sanger started Wikipedia back in 2001 and it was ranked as the number one website in the reference materials category with huge influence on the internet landscape is huge. What sets it apart from most of the offerings is that anyone can create and edit articles but due to page vandalism, a lot of protections are in place to guard the content and ecosystem.

Remember people we live in an age where people lie freely. You have to check for yourself. Jimmy says academic citations matter. His editors do not. Apparently I'm the one who's wrong?! We need to decentralized the infrastructure to avoid these horrible double standards pic.twitter.com/KcfZwRppQ9

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) October 23, 2020

It remains the case that volunteers are responsible for creating all of the platform content. John Lubbock, the Communications Coordinator at Wikipedia UK, described the platform as being built on existing knowledge so users should not consider Wikipedia as the main data source. For that reason the emphasis on sources and appropriate references is key to what’s allowed to the platform:

“for a new Wikipedia page to be allowed to stay, or for edits to an existing page to stick, there have to be verifiable sources for the information, be they directly linkable primary sources already on the internet, or references to printed information in books or magazines.”

Wikipedia’s decision to delete Cardano’s page from its platform drew heavy criticism from Hoskinson. Hoskinson accused Wikipedia after raising the point that the academic references and citations count for nothing according to his knowledge but Wales hit back saying that’s untrue.  Hoskinson reeled off Cardano’s array of academic achievements since its launch:

 “there are over 75 academic papers that are related, more than 50 directly related to Cardano, over 2,500 citations. We were the second most cited collection of scientific papers, in the last five years, in security and cryptography and computer science.”

Brief Statement on Wikipedia https://t.co/Q0vdrZIO3W

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) October 23, 2020

Going further, Charles Hoskinson pointed out that academic journals and mainstream publications like the Wall Street Journal and Forbes have all publicized Cardano’s achievements so Hoskinson questions why Wales doesn’t consider these as credible sources:

 “You are losing credibility, your platform is losing credibility. Spend five minutes and look into what your editors are doing and what your platform has done. All of our people, EOS and Tezos, they are apparently notable for a page. We are not.”