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Talk:Examples of Bias in Wikipedia (view source)
Revision as of 02:57, March 17, 2007
, 02:57, March 17, 2007→Figured you'd find this interesting
{{QuoteBox|The sample is self-selected, and Karmafist identifies himself as a Democrat and has occasionally clashed with Wikipedia authority. So my guess is that the general Wikipedia contributor population isn't quite as skewed as the graph suggests. But if there's any skew in the general Wiki population, it probably lies in this direction: left on economic issues, libertarian on social issues.}}
{{QuoteBox|The sample is self-selected, and Karmafist identifies himself as a Democrat and has occasionally clashed with Wikipedia authority. So my guess is that the general Wikipedia contributor population isn't quite as skewed as the graph suggests. But if there's any skew in the general Wiki population, it probably lies in this direction: left on economic issues, libertarian on social issues.}}
:Funny how you magically leave out all the parts about "probably", "isn't quite as skewed" and so on. But whatever. You like numbers when they say what you want. I can't wait to see how you phrase this on the Bias page, it should be highly entertaining :) --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 15:46, 16 March 2007 (EDT)
:Funny how you magically leave out all the parts about "probably", "isn't quite as skewed" and so on. But whatever. You like numbers when they say what you want. I can't wait to see how you phrase this on the Bias page, it should be highly entertaining :) --[[User:Sid 3050|Sid 3050]] 15:46, 16 March 2007 (EDT)
===Reply===
Aschafly: Sure, go ahead. Just remember to attribute. And i'm not hiding anything. I am a liberal.
Order: I took that view from looking at the above talk page. Also, you should remember that Wikipedia generally inflates that count since around 70-80% of those accounts are vandalism only by my estimates, even back when I was doing that study when there were only around 800,000 user names.
Others: Feel free to add to the study if you want in any way you'd like. Just remember to attribute the initial research. I took it basically by word of mouth in metapedian areas, that old user name of mine ("I", the real world "I", Andrew Sylvia, has a few more user accounts that still edit actively, including a few admin accounts) had around 10,000 welcomes if I remember correctly.
And "I"(karmafist, not "me") didn't leave that place due to this survey, it was because I fought the tyrant that runs Wikipedia when he bullied an underage minor and sacrificed my reputation with those monsters for it. [[User:Karmafist|Karmafist]] 22:57, 16 March 2007 (EDT)