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Re: Jumping ship: Wiki founder jumps to Eclipse from Microsoft

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2329950.V1osnM6EjD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

'Wikipedia factor' probably surpasses all others in terms of prominence. How else can knowledge be managed without bias?

Actually, the content of Wikipedia tends to be biased towards the most popular view, which is not nescessarily always the one which is factually correct.


For example, within the demographics of Wikipedia contributers, the set that consists of those who watch anime is much higher than the set of those who have studied East-Asian anthropology, and so the articles on Japanese culture are sometimes misleading.

The denizens of sci.lang.japan complain about this regularly. Here's a search query: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang.japan/search?group=sci.lang.japan&q=wikipedia

For one specific example of an anime fan contributing misleading content, see this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang.japan/browse_frm/thread/89d9282a8165da2a/ba76a341a726e1ba


- Oliver


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