W6. Who do you think edits wikipedia? the young, the old, male, female, Americans, Koreans?

 Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone of all genders, ages, and nationalities. This is only low in credibility in Korea, and it has always become a reliable content that appears on top of Google search results. So, does Wikipedia's collective intelligence fairly much of the world's knowledge? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone of all genders, ages, and nationalities. This is only low in credibility in Korea, and it has always become a reliable content that appears on top of Google search results. So, does Wikipedia's collective intelligence fairly contain much of the world's knowledge?

 

In fact, gender bias has been an issue that has been raised since 2010. According to several surveys and studies, the biggest reason of the problem is that most of Wikipedia's editing participants are men. Among Wikipedia editors, women range from 10% to 20%. There is one example that illustrates this well. There was Strickland, a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time in 55 years as a woman. Many people were flocking to Wikipedia to search for her personality information. But they couldn't find the name. So wikipedia users tried to create information document about Strickland, but were rejected by the administrator because she did not satisfy the editorial criteria as "must be a widely known person". Women's character information documents are more difficult to make than men's.

 

Another bias is often mentioned. Wikipedia, which contains world knowledge, is "West Center." The vastest Wikipedia has grown mainly in Western Europe and the United States, and documents about the West have naturally become a major part of the world's Wikipedia. In particular, young, economically affordable, and highly educated whites are known to lead Wikipedia editing. Actually, the regional distribution of participants showed that Western Europe accounted for more than 50 percent, Asia for less than 20 percent and Africa for less than 5 percent.

 

Most of the biases resulting from the structure are caused by the composition of editorial participants leaning to one side. Completely independent editorial participants from the server administrator Wikimedia Foundation edit Wikipedia. Furthermore, with participants from certain genders and regions taking up the majority of editors, Wikipedia documents also show a bias of interest. The topics that individual editors are interested in are discussed in detail, but the topics outside their interests are neglected. Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia Foundation have also recognized these issues, discussed them steadily, and tried to improve them. Using artificial intelligence translators to increase the number of documents in other linguistic regions with fewer documents is one of the efforts to solve the problem of bias. Users also need to read Wikipedia proactively, recognizing these points, as Wikipedia is generally accurate and useful, but content is edited according to the interests of individual editors involved in document editing.