Is Wikipedia Biased
By Shane M. Greenstein, Feng Zhu. 2012
138 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/67ab998be7e9848cff838a2e42baf138ce1873f6
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In Sociology and Political Science
Citations in the corpus
- Bias in word embeddings (2020, background): “Similarly, researchers have proven the existence of biased slants related to immigration issues on wikipedia [48].”
- Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding (2014, unknown): “tance of brands in signaling quality in online marketplaces. Importantly, they show that as information becomes more accessible, the importance of brands diminishes. Lewis (2011) further examines the role of information access and shows that the voluntary disclosure of private information increases ”
- Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts (2016, unknown): “Further, recent research on Wikipedia has shown that while there may be political biases in certain articles (Greenstein & Zhu, 2012), as these articles are more heavily edited by the crowd, they ultimately become less biased than similar work produced by the experts at Encyclopedia Britannica…”
- Open-Source Embedding Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Techniques, Benchmarks, and Applications (2026, unknown): “The lack of diversity within the Wikipedia editor community, which is predominantly white and male, is another factor that can contribute to biases in the content [56], [57].”