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Comment by hagbard_c

A genuine answer, how about looking up some studies on this subject? Not those done by Wikipedia of course, they claim to be politically neutral after all.

Here's a few, from https://www.allsides.com/blog/wikipedia-biased

Six studies, including two from Harvard researchers, have found a left-wing bias at Wikipedia:

A 2024 analysis [1] by researcher David Rozado that used AllSides Media Bias Ratings [2] found Wikipedia associates right-of-center public figures with more negative sentiment than left-wing figures, and tends to associate left-leaning news organizations with more positive sentiment than right-leaning ones.

A Harvard study [3] found Wikipedia articles are more left-wing than Encyclopedia Britannica.

Another paper [4] from the same Harvard researchers found left-wing editors are more active and partisan on the site.

A 2018 analysis [5] found top-cited news outlets on Wikipedia are mainly left-wing.

Another analysis [6] using AllSides Media Bias Ratings found that pages on American politicians cite mostly left-wing news outlets.

American academics found [7] conservative editors are 6 times more likely to be sanctioned in Wikipedia policy enforcement.

There are far more sources out there.

If I show examples of biased pages - the one on Antifa is a good example - this will just devolve into a quibble about this or that sentence.

[1] https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...

[2] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings

[3] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Do-Experts-or-Collecti...

[4] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/17-028_e7788...

[5] https://archive.md/v4TFn

[6] https://archive.is/dDr7X

[7] https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/

parent hagbard_c 1 year ago

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