Wikispooks:About

Site Rationale

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WikiSpooks is an open source encyclopedia of deep politics, a repository of documents and information about deep political events and organisations. It compiles user contributed information to help people pursue alternatuve lines of research and explore ideas and opinions generally not explored in commercially-controlled media. Most of the content is from the last century or two. Analysis of historical events from earlier times is particularly welcome especially when it sheds light on the hidden purposes and practices of contemporary deep politics.

Language

The site is English Language only for now. The MediaWiki platform has comprehensive multi-language facilities but operating them effectively uses both scarce resources and currently unavailable language resources. In other words "English-only" is a resources issue. It does mean that Non-English language documents and articles are not suitable candidates for the site unless competently translated and applicable to the English-speaking world. It is acknowledged that this does restrict the site's scope.

What Is Wrong With Wikipedia?

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Wikipedia is good at what it does. However, its editorial policies give it a blind spot around matters of deep politics, so information on such topics is superficial and fragmented at best and often more of a smokescreen. Wikipedia's adherence to the official narrative as promulgated by the 'reliable sources' of the commercially-controlled media effectively mean that, to use an astrological metaphor "the sun must always be represented as revolving around the earth".^[1]

The "Gunpowder Plot" of 1605 in England is an example of how it is possible to marshal copious undisputed facts but nonetheless minimise what is clearly a higher probability interpretation of the episode than "the official narrative". Popular perception of that event remains consonant with the "official narrative" which has it that the good brave authorities were caught off-guard by a dastardly Popish conspiracy to blow up parliament whilst in session, and that the plot was uncovered and foiled in the nick of time. Does that sound familiar? That is also the way it is presented in the Wikipedia main article ^[2] on the subject, where accusations of 'state conspiracy' are relegated to a single paragraph and copious evidence of agent-provocateuring and facilitating by the authorities of the day do not even warrant a mention.

Editorial Policy

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The fundamental premise of WikiSpooks' editorial policy is that anything which authority perceives as a threat is opposed by that authority, generally successfully because of the much greater resources which authority can bring to bear. This power imbalance becomes especially acute where matters of Deep Politics are involved. A good reference source on this syndrome in action is the small media-monitoring site Media Lens.^[3] Wikispooks therefore does not aim for a (status quo friendly) Neutral Point of View^[4] and does not assume that endorsement by the commercially-controlled media of evidence to be an indication of its veracity.

History

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WikiSpooks was launched in May 2010 by administrator Peter Presland. It is hosted in the Irish Republic.

Acknowledgements

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The site uses the MediaWiki software^[5] developed for Wikipedia. It is inspired and informed by several other open source collaborative projects, and is inspired by Cryptome, Wikileaks, The Deep Politics Forum, SpinProfiles, SourceWatch and last but not least, Wikipedia.