democrat – Technology Liberation Front https://techliberation.com Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:56:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 6772528 Shane Greenstein on bias in Wikipedia articles https://techliberation.com/2014/03/11/greenstein/ https://techliberation.com/2014/03/11/greenstein/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:00:07 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=74289

Shane Greenstein, Kellogg Chair in Information Technology at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, discusses his recent paper, Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia , coauthored by Harvard assistant professor Feng Zhu. Greenstein and Zhu’s paper takes a look at whether Linus’ Law applies to Wikipedia articles. Do Wikipedia articles have a slant or bias? If so, how can we measure it? And, do articles become less biased over time, as more contributors become involved? Greenstein explains his findings.

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