> “Wikipedia is one of the last places online that shows the promise of the internet, housing more than 65 million articles written to inform, not persuade,” the Wikimedia Foundation said Friday in a statement

Well that is apparently very false when it comes to american politics and jewish matters. On the positive side, for other countries and languages the biases are very different and quite wide ranging.

Maybe this threat by the US government is a good thing, it will force wikipedians to take their head out of the sand and go back to wide-ranging NPOV , and remove all those judgemental adjectives and epithets that are thrown around in so many articles.

I don't believe the idea of wikipedia can be threatened because it is a really resilient idea across political lines and there are billions who will want to recreate it.

The bias also exists very strongly in the German Wikipedia.