2011
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21577
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Cultural bias in Wikipedia content on famous persons

Abstract: Wikipedia advocates a strict "neutral point of view" (NPOV) policy. However, although originally a U.S-based, English-language phenomenon, the online, user-created encyclopedia now has versions in many languages. This study examines the extent to which content and perspectives vary across cultures by comparing articles about famous persons in the Polish and English editions of Wikipedia. The results of quantitative and qualitative content analyses reveal systematic differences related to the different cultures… Show more

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“…A specific analysis of the comparative cultural biases present in articles about famous persons in English and Polish Wikipedia is presented in [5]. Authors perform quantitative and qualitative content analysis revealing systematic differences related to the different cultures, histories, and values of Poland and United States.…”
Section: Language Wikipedia Communities and Their Points Of Viewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A specific analysis of the comparative cultural biases present in articles about famous persons in English and Polish Wikipedia is presented in [5]. Authors perform quantitative and qualitative content analysis revealing systematic differences related to the different cultures, histories, and values of Poland and United States.…”
Section: Language Wikipedia Communities and Their Points Of Viewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, there might be cultural biases in the Linked Open Data sets used. When generating a feature such as number of (famous) persons born in that city, a larger amount of information on, e.g., US celebrities may introduce a cultural bias [5]. Likewise, we have observed a slight bias in DBpedia towards facts from popular culture, since many of our hypotheses were concerned with bands and music records.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…The accuracy of Wikipedia articles has always been subject of controversy due to Wikipedia's open editing policy [30]. However, an investigation conducted by Nature in 2005 [31] suggested that Wikipedia comes close to Encyclopaedia Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, although this suggestion was later disputed by Britannica [32].…”
Section: Wikipedia As a Controlled Vocabularymentioning
confidence: 99%