Britannica for example produces its final content after consultation between editors and experts. Wikipedia on the other hand relies on the crowd for its content receiving contributions from tens of millions of individual users. Examining pairs of articles about US politics that appeared in both outlets the authors compare bias and slant from the two production models. Results suggest that the allocation of editorial time and user contributions is central to the minimization of differences in bias and slant between the two outlets.
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Community managers can work towards a balanced view if intervention alleviates disputes and generates the right kind of participation. Key concepts include The costs of producing storing and distributing knowledge shape different biases Czech Republic Phone Number List and slants in the collective intelligence Wikipedia and the expert based model Britannica . Many of the differences between Wikipedia and Britannica arise because Wikipedia faces insignificant storage production and distribution costs. This leads to longer articles with greater coverage of more points of view. The number of revisions of Wikipedia articles results in more neutral point of view. In the best cases it reduces slant and bias to a negligible difference with an expert based model.
As the world moves from reliance on expert
Based production of knowledge to collectively produced intelligence it is unwise to blindly trust the properties of knowledge produced by the crowd. appreciated nor are the properties of the production model as yet fully understood. Author Abstract Turkey Whatsapp Number Which source of information contains greater bias and slant text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence Do the costs of acquiring storing displaying and revising information shape those differences We evaluate these questions empirically by examining slanted and biased phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.
