Jimmy Wales

Like there's so many things going on in the world.

What we try to do in general, and this does work reasonably well, is to say, go meta, go one level higher.

Don't take sides in the conflict.

Just write about the conflict in a fair way.

Express what all the relevant sides say.

And, you know, in my book, I talked to a Ukrainian Wikipedian who just he's a real big advocate that Ukrainian Wikipedia should be neutral even about the war.

And his view is like, that's all we have to do.

Just tell the facts.

Like the facts prove our case enough.

And I'm like, yeah, that's actually brilliant.

That's fantastic.

And there's, you know, things like we talk about wiki voice, which means, you know, it's said in the voice of Wikipedia, Paris is the capital of France.

We just assert that.

We don't say according to Wikipedia.

So when do you use WikiVoice?

It should be very sparingly, like ideally in an area with lots of controversy.

We should not do that.

Like we shouldn't be saying one side or the other.

We should be describing the conflict.

That works pretty well, but obviously there's a lot of struggle.