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Wikipedia is extremely biased and, more important, it is not the internet. If you teach people that internet is cable tv 2.0 very bad things will happen.
by klokoman 9y ago
Wikipedia is extremely biased and, more important, it is not the internet. If you teach people that internet is cable tv 2.0 very bad things will happen.
- aisofteng 9y agoI'm not aware of this "extreme" bias in Wikipedia. What is it?
- oj-lappi 9y agoThere is research comparing wikipedia to encyclopaedia britannica which concludes that wikipedia has more "left code words" per article than EB. However a) this research is very US-centric b) the paper also concludes that code word per word is pretty much equal between the two, wikipedia just has longer articles 1. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-experts-or-collective-intelligence-write-with-more-bias-evidence-from-encyclopdia-britannica-and-wikipedia https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-experts-or-collective-intellig...
- King-Aaron 9y agoI tend to feel that this research is fundamentally bullshit.
- colejohnson66 9y agoWhat bias? I’ve seen Wikipedia editors working round the clock to prevent bias and vandalism from appearing on pages about controversial people such as Martin Shkreli