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Interesting. How do you plan to keep coverage unbiased? A lot of bias manages to sneak into Wikipedia articles on current events in spite of their community gui

Interesting. How do you plan to keep coverage unbiased? A lot of bias manages to sneak into Wikipedia articles on current events in spite of their community guidelines and moderation.

fwn 12y ago
I second this one. Traditional news have little problem with their reputation. In general it's known if the newspaper/magazine describes itself as leftleaning, conservative etc.. I can imagine this to be much harder in a community with a vague, biased crowd not identifiable due to the hight amount of uncoordinated accounts participating. I'd love to hear more thoughts on this bias-problem.
- lsanger 12y ago
  Battling organized partisanship is a problem for down the road. My hope is that, by the time we deal with that, we'll have the funding and the personnel to code up a system that enables us to test out some technical solutions to this problem. There are lots of ideas...
lsanger 12y ago
The fact that bitt and fact order, as well as which fact is displayed to the reader, is (or will soon be) subject to vote will provide a moderating influence, I hope. The reason Wikipedia articles are often biased is that people in authority in the community simply do not respect the neutrality policy. Even if most Wikipedians and most readers would prefer things to be more balanced, those in de facto control of an article determine the article's degree of bias. If the wording and order of facts is determined by open public vote, my hypothesis is that there will be more of a moderating effect.
- briandear 12y ago
  However it would depend on who is doing the voting. If you, for example, used Twitter to gauge political sentiment, you'd be representing x% of the majority position, which would introduce a selection bias that would imply that x% represent the views of everyone. The problems with Wikipedia for controversial topics Ali's that typically both sides are highly motivated to "win" whereas those that aren't so motivated probably have the correct answer.

Interesting. How do you plan to keep coverage unbiased? A lot of bias manages to sneak into Wikipedia articles on current events in spite of their community guidelines and moderation.

fwn 12y ago

I second this one. Traditional news have little problem with their reputation. In general it's known if the newspaper/magazine describes itself as leftleaning, conservative etc.. I can imagine this to be much harder in a community with a vague, biased crowd not identifiable due to the hight amount of uncoordinated accounts participating. I'd love to hear more thoughts on this bias-problem.

lsanger 12y ago
Battling organized partisanship is a problem for down the road. My hope is that, by the time we deal with that, we'll have the funding and the personnel to code up a system that enables us to test out some technical solutions to this problem. There are lots of ideas...

lsanger 12y ago

The fact that bitt and fact order, as well as which fact is displayed to the reader, is (or will soon be) subject to vote will provide a moderating influence, I hope. The reason Wikipedia articles are often biased is that people in authority in the community simply do not respect the neutrality policy. Even if most Wikipedians and most readers would prefer things to be more balanced, those in de facto control of an article determine the article's degree of bias. If the wording and order of facts is determined by open public vote, my hypothesis is that there will be more of a moderating effect.

briandear 12y ago
However it would depend on who is doing the voting. If you, for example, used Twitter to gauge political sentiment, you'd be representing x% of the majority position, which would introduce a selection bias that would imply that x% represent the views of everyone. The problems with Wikipedia for controversial topics Ali's that typically both sides are highly motivated to "win" whereas those that aren't so motivated probably have the correct answer.