Started to notice how bad German Wikipedia is at controlling bias compared to enwp. Examples:
The article on BDS has a clear agenda to make the reader believe the movement is antisemitic, based on an idea that its primary historical roots are in anti-Jewish boycotts, rather than the South African anti-apartheid movement
The article on ‘Junk Science’ describes the term mainly as an attack word used by tobacco, fossil fuel etc. lobbyists against the real science they want to attack
To point 2, that might actually be how the term has historically mostly been used in German – I’m not sure. But the case doesn’t look convincing, because dewp claims the term originated several years later than enwp does, ignoring earlier use.
dewp introduced the ‘approved versions’ system, where edits only go live after a regular editor approves them. In practice this may give certain ideological cliques de facto control over article content
The dewp community has strongly resisted adding an equivalent of the enwp [citation needed] tag to the extent that opposition to it has become a community shibboleth. Articles feel subjectively less well cited in dewp than enwp on average
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