? Actually I find it ridiculous to suggest there wouldn't be a bias.
Are you suggesting wikipedia editors are typical of the population at large? What are you basing that on?
And if you concede there are demographic differences (eg education level) why do you think those differences would be orthogonal to political bias?
Note I'm not saying that there is a bias, but I would say that's the null hypothesis, and a lot easier to defend than the position that there is no bias.
I didn't say bias is not a thing, bias is very real.
All I'm saying that the collective bias that was stipulated, spanning across tens of thousands of users and dozens of languages, would need to be very organized.
Which has nothing to do with wikipedia editors being typical of the population, but a lot with trying to stereotype wikipedia editors as supposedly all sharing the same political bias.
When in many cases they don't even share the same language, nor the same conceptual framework about political dimensions/currents due to often very big cultural differences.
Are you suggesting wikipedia editors are typical of the population at large? What are you basing that on?
And if you concede there are demographic differences (eg education level) why do you think those differences would be orthogonal to political bias?
Note I'm not saying that there is a bias, but I would say that's the null hypothesis, and a lot easier to defend than the position that there is no bias.