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The Government of India has sent a notice to Wikipedia. The government has written to Wikipedia over several complaints of biased information and inaccuracies on the website. According to sources, the government has pointed to a small group having editorial control and asked why Wikipedia should not be treated as a publisher rather than a moderator.
A letter issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said it believed a small group had editorial control over its pages. Wikipedia bills itself as a free online encyclopedia, in which volunteers create or edit pages on personalities, issues, or various topics. This popular online source of information is embroiled in a legal case in India for allegedly providing false and objectionable content. This notice of the Central Government regarding Wikipedia has come at a time when a private organization has said in a research that Wikipedia is controlled by only a small group of people in the whole world.
What's in the anti-Wikipedia dossier given to the government?
Some proposals have been given in the dossier that has been prepared and given to the government after preparing a research report on Wikipedia. For example, Wikipedia should be declared a publisher rather than a moderator, because it has a different editorial policy. Since Wikipedia does not have a presence in India and spends crores of rupees in India only for its business interests, its financial transactions should be investigated. Wikipedia should be brought under the Competition Act 2002. A browser extension has been created to reveal biased information on Wikipedia pages. The Government of India should create a browser extension that can detect biased information in Wikipedia articles.