My Weetabix spoon froze in mid-air when I saw that Sandi Toksvig, affable host of televisual fluff, and activist for various progressive causes, has her sights set on a new target: Toksvig is taking aim at, of all things, Wikipedia.

Toksvig’s Wiki crusade is fascinatingly barmy. What next, I wonder?

Toksvig’s Wiki crusade is fascinatingly barmy. What next, I wonder?

Why? Because, apparently, it is not left-wing enough. In fact, in her estimation it is ‘deeply biased’ and a positive hotbed of wrongthink, because it is controlled and edited by ‘middle-aged white men’ (boo hiss).

Toksvig revealed to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival – that well-known hangout for young people of colour – that she has spent the last few years travelling the world raising funds for Mappa Mundi, a new online encyclopaedia to be overseen by the University of Cambridge. Mappa Mundi? Boring name. And Tokipedia was right there.

Now, Wikipedia is many things – often wildly inaccurate, frequently libellous – but too right-wing is not one of them. Toksvig is particularly convinced that women are hard done by on........

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