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<p>why it&#039;s the worst possible thing to import from Wikipedia</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>An &#039;&#039;&#039;echo chamber&#039;&#039;&#039; is &quot;a group of media outlets that tend to parrot each other&#039;s uncritical reports on the views of a single source, or that otherwise relies on unquestioning repetition of official sources.&quot; The term is relevant to a [[large public wiki]] in that such tactics are common on mailing lists and in other non-[[reflexive]] forums used to discuss [[governance]] and whether to [[block IP]] (the most critical governance issue). That is, there is no [[due process]] of any kind, and popular people may lie and have lies repeated without limit, resulting in false impressions of others&#039; behaviour or intent.<br /> <br /> Those who propagate, or even tolerate (from official positions) the &quot;echo chamber effect&quot;, do profound damage to the credibility of any project. If they are permitted to influence actual decisions, particularly those that affect the discourse and [[free circulation of fiction]] (such as &quot;reverting&quot; talk files, or censoring valid textual contributions and references, and corrections), then they are probably the single most destructive influence on any wiki-based work.<br /> <br /> An incomplete list of people who have propagated or amplified this effect would probably be unfair to assemble in the main article. However see [[Talk:echo chamber]] for examples where they can be discussed and debated on a more even basis without &quot;[[revert war]]&quot;.<br /> <br /> [http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Echo_chamber Disinfopedia: echo chamber]</div>

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