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True. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has project pages explicitly addressing this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias http://en.wikipedia.org
by derleth 13y ago
True. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has project pages explicitly addressing this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Counterin...
Even at best, though, an Internet project is inevitably going to be biased towards the POV of whoever uses the Internet. The solution is to expand Internet access, which quickly reduces to the problem of solving all of the social problems nobody's been able to solve yet. Piece of cake.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoThanks for pointing out those pages. I think greater internet access would certainly help, but it's not a panacea as far as Wikipedia is concerned. It might be that no matter what happens, a specific majority demographic with respect to age, income, eduction, and gender will choose to edit an online NPOV collaborative encyclopedia.
- AlexanderDhoore 13y agoJust discovered (under Systemic bias) that the Dutch wikipedia is the second biggest. That's pretty awesome of us Dutchies! (I also read ones that the Dutch are 4th or something on torrent uploads. Brilliant.)