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Wikiscepticism

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Community
Anti-wiki
Conflict-driven view
False community
Wikiculture
Wikifaith
The Wiki process
The wiki way
Darwikinism
Power structure
Wikianarchism
Wikibureaucracy
Wikidemocratism
WikiDemocracy
Wikidespotism
Wikifederalism
Wikihierarchism
Wikimeritocracy
Wikindividualism
Wikioligarchism
Wikiplutocracy
Wikirepublicanism
Wikiscepticism
Wikitechnocracy
Collaboration
Antifactionalism
Factionalism
Social
Exopedianism
Mesopedianism
Metapedianism
Overall content structure
Transclusionism
Antitransclusionism
Categorism
Structurism
Encyclopedia standards
Deletionism
Delusionism
Exclusionism
Inclusionism
Precisionism
Precision-Skeptics
Notability
Essentialism
Incrementalism
Article length
Mergism
Separatism
Measuring accuracy
Eventualism
Immediatism
Miscellaneous
Antiovertranswikism
Mediawikianism
Post-Deletionism
Transwikism
Wikidynamism
Wikisecessionism
Redirectionism

Wikiscepticism (also Wikiskepticism) is a philosophy which doubts the success of Wikipedia. More generally, it is the application of scepticism to the creation, development and maintenance of collaborative online information and education resources such as wikipedia, wikibooks, wikiversity classes, wiktionary definitions, and so forth. The cardinal point of all forms of scepticism is a rejection of axioms, conclusory presuppositions, precepts particularly when they are the received wisdom of dogma and institutional orthodoxies. It is an approach in contrast to wikindividualism and wikidemocracy.

A Wikisceptic is a strong supporter of the principle that Wikipedia goes against human nature. They believe that the individual will make the wrong decision as will popular opinion. They also argue that because of the ambiguity between Wikidemocracy and Wikindividualism building a free online encyclopedia is an impossibility.

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It ends up with people who'd rather use obscure websites instead ending in .cx