WikiProject Intellectual Diversity

WikiProject Intellectual Diversity aims to help reinforce Wikipedia's original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity. In particular, we seek to reinforce the original principles of fair decision-making (giving new users and minority views a fair hearing), genuine neutrality (not taking a position on controversial issues), transparent governance (which would spread out the authority of an intellectually homogeneous inner circle), and responsiveness to the public (which presently includes viewpoints not found in great numbers on Wikipedia).

Mission

More fully, we seek to help Wikipedia to:

• Adopt fairer methods of reaching decisions on editorial and personnel questions, with a view to becoming more just and open.
• Return to the original neutrality policy, explicitly tolerating multiple points of view and acknowledging legitimate differences in judgment about source reliability.
• Ensure Wikipedia's editorial governance is fully transparent and accountable, in effect ultimately distributing editorial authority that has de facto become concentrated in the hands of too few people.
• Encourage the adoption of tools whereby a more diverse public, both for its own sake and editors’, can evaluate and respond to articles.

We will work to advance these principles iteratively, not all at once—dramatic change not being how Wikipedia works—but in concrete, achievable, incremental ways.

Scope

Our scope extends to policy pages, guidelines, and essays relevant to these categories of reforms. We do not assert any authority over such pages. Rather, we will be reviewing and proposing changes to them. We will do so in various appropriate venues where issues are being discussed and principles applied, including talk pages of major policies and guidelines (e.g., Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources, and Wikipedia talk:Verifiability).

We will pay close attention to RfCs, the Village Pump, Dispute resolution, and occasionally ArbCom. We will also track relevant noticeboards where policy interpretation and enforcement questions are frequently addressed, including Administrators' noticeboard, ANI, Reliable sources noticeboard, NPOV noticeboard, Conflict of interest noticeboard, and BLP noticeboard.

Policy Scanner

The Policy Scanner, which we maintain, monitors dozens of policy talk pages, noticeboards, RfCs, and Village Pump discussions daily, flagging items relevant to our mission. The results are posted below and archived periodically. The scanner is a traditional Ruby script, augmented by LLM output at key points; but a human reviews all output before posting, and posts the result by hand. Of course, anyone may follow the links provided and write whatever is permitted on the pages. We do not instruct people what to say or how to vote.