Re:Wikipedia is 20
by toomim on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:38AM
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This might not be quite the examples you're looking for, but here's a study of Wikipedia's leftward bias from Harvard: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41946110/greenst...
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Re:Wikipedia is 20
by three_seagrass on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:54AM
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Are you sure? That article talks about how unbiased Wikipedia is:
>Our study finds that crowd-based knowledge production does not result in articles with more biased than articles produced by experts when the crowd-based articles are substantially revised.
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, also gives a number of examples of Wikipedia's bias in this article:
> when the crowd-based articles are substantially revised.
You literally just had to keep reading to find the cases where they do show bias
Re:Wikipedia is 20
by brendoelfrendo on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:28AM
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That's just saying that highly-trafficked, highly-edited articles are going to be less biased than articles with fewer contributors or sources. That... just makes sense, to me; the more visible or relevant an article, the more people (and potentially experts) will weigh in, and the more crowd consensus will drive out the more blatant biases.