Wikipedia: five minutes to understand the criticisms of encyclopedia in France

Le Parisien

Lean Right

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The Point, a weekly French news magazine, triggered a media war against Wikipedia. They accuse each other, one of intimidation, the other of misinformation.

Le Monde

Lean Left

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The weekly, dissatisfied with his presentation on online encyclopedia, sent a formal notice and launched a petition. Wikipedia's French-speaking contributors, for their part, protest against certain editorial methods of writing.

Marianne

Lean Left

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Presented in the online encyclopedia as an "Islamophobic" and "hard-right" media distinguished by its "failures to professional ethics", the magazine decided to counter-attack by calling on the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that finances and hosts Wikipedia.