User:Emijrp/Bias in Wikipedia

In Marxist philosophy, the term cultural hegemony describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class worldview becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm; as the universally valid dominant ideology that justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural, inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.

Wikipedia is a great and inspiring project. Spreading all human knowledge for free is one of the best achievements the world can pursue. The problem starts when that knowledge is biased. And not shaped and biased in any way, but in a way that benefits the ruling class.

Malcolm X said "if you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Newspapers are references in Wikipedia, what could possibly go wrong? Of course, this is not the only source of bias, but one of the most blatant.

In this page I compile some info about Bias in Wikipedia.

Anti-communism[edit]

One of the most blatant biases in Wikipedia, if not the worst, is the anti-communism bias.

Examples to analyse:

Mass killings under Communist regimes: it shows the same numbers (100 million) and references (The Black Book of Communism) that the Conservapedia and Metapedia articles.^[1]^[2] It seems so reliable...

Human rights[edit]

International treaties[edit]

Country	ICERD^[4] (text)	MWC^[8] (text)	HR section	HR article
Colombia		Accession	No	Yes (33,840 bytes)
Cuba			Yes	Yes (89,754 bytes)
Ecuador	Accession	Accession	Yes	Yes (81 bytes)
United States			No	Yes (218,112 bytes)
Legend: Signed and ratified, Signed but not ratified, Not signed and not ratified

Internet[edit]

Country	Main article introduction	Surveillance prjects
Cuba	The Internet in Cuba is among the most tightly controlled in the world. This is the first sentence [1]
United States	The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States in turn provided the foundation for the world-wide Internet of today. Internet access in the United States is largely provided by the private sector and is available in a variety of forms, using a variety of technologies, at a wide range of speeds and costs. In 2012, 81% of Americans were using the Internet, which ranks the U.S. 28th out of 211 countries in the world. A large number of people in the US have little or no choice at all on who provides their internet access. The country suffers from a severe lack of competition in the broadband business. Nearly one-third of households in the United States have either no choice for home broadband Internet service, or no options at all. Internet top-level domain names specific to the U.S. include .us, .edu, .gov, .mil, .as (American Samoa), .gu (Guam), .mp (Northern Mariana Islands), .pr (Puerto Rico), and .vi (U.S. Virgin Islands). Many U.S.-based organizations and individuals also use generic top-level domains (.com, .net, .org, .name, ...). Not a word about control or surveillance in the introduction, neither in the rest of the article [2]	COINTELPRO ECHELON Five Eyes PRISM XKeyscore See more projects Mass surveillance in the United States

Non-governmental organizations[edit]

NGO	Criticism
Amnesty International	Yes
Human Rights Watch	Yes

Mass media[edit]

Mass media in references^[9]
Mass media	Links	Country	Owner(s)
BBC	386,665	United Kingdom	Statutory corporation
The New York Times	211,769	United States	The New York Times Company
The Guardian	107,524	United Kingdom	Guardian Media Group, Scott Trust Limited
The Daily Telegraph	55,543	United Kingdom	Telegraph Media Group, Press Holdings, Barclay Brothers
Washington Post	44,674	United States	Nash Holdings LLC, Jeff Bezos
The Independent	38,983	United Kingdom	Independent Print Ltd, Evgeny & Alexander Lebedev
Los Angeles Times	30,894	United States	Tribune Publishing
Time	30,791	United States	Time Inc.
ABC	29,968	Australia	Statutory corporation
Reuters	28,290	United Kingdom	Thomson Reuters, The Woodbridge Company, Thomson family
USA Today	27,024	United States	Gannett Company
Daily Mail	26,251	United Kingdom	Daily Mail and General Trust

Women[edit]

Women in parliaments^[10]
Country	Year	Women (%)
Cuba	2013	48.9%
Ecuador	2013	41.6%
Colombia	2014	19.9%
Saudi Arabia	2013	19.9%
United States of America	2014	19.4%
Uncyclopedia	2008	9.6%^[11]
Wikipedia	2011	8.5%^[12]

Sandbox[edit]

References[edit]

^ http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Communism&oldid=1148187
^ http://en.metaREMOVETHISpedia.org/m/index.php?title=Communism&oldid=398578#Red_Holocaust
^ "'Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women'". Treaties.un.org. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^ "Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination". United Nations Treaty Collection. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^ "UN Treaty Collection: parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: List of parties". United Nations. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^ "Convention on the Rights of the Child". Retrieved 2015-05-21.
^ "Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^ "International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families". Retrieved 2015-04-04.
^ "User:Emijrp/External Links Ranking". 2014-06-14.
^ "Women in national parliaments". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
^ "Essay:Gender and Sysops". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
^ "Editor Survey Report – April 2011". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-07.