3.

What, if anything, should Wikipedia do to ensure that its articles indeed present a
neutral point of view? Shouldnt the crowdsourcing approach ensure an objective? Does a
neutral point of view matter to Wikipedias sustainability? Why or Why not ?
The significant bias which relate to politics articles have been revealed in U.S via
Wikipedia. Therefore, in order to make sure the articles indeed present neutral point of view,
Wikipedia should applied a method originally designed to define political bias in printed
newspapers to set a quantitative baseline for defining favoritism on Wikipedia(Gentzkow &
Shapiro, 2005). By using code phrase, it can be used as a signal for political bias when
performing statistical analysis on large sets of newspaper articles.
To ensure the objectivity, Wikipedia users should understands as neutrality means
carefully and critically analyzing a variety of reliable sources rather than crowdsourcing and then
trying to express to the reader the information contained in them fairly, proportionately, and as
far as possible without bias.
Maintaining what Wikipedia calls neutral point of view sustainability is relatively when
writing about science topics or otherwise objectively verifiable subjects. Also narrow down such
as politics and history which bias and controversy inevitably arise. So, if a Wikipedia user was
looking to get a complete and unbiased view, it would not necessarily come from one article, but
also read more than one from reliable sources (Greenstein & Zhu, 2012).
4. How has the long tail affected Wikipedia?
The Wikipedia entry on the Long Tail does an excellent job of expanding on digital
downloading or peer-to-peer markets. The shift from hits to niches is a rich, manifest in all sorts
of surprising places. This blog is where users are going to collect everything. The long tail has

also been used to describe phenomena in non-commerce domains such as blogs, social networks,
and tagging. Here, the long tail often refers to the natural long-tailed distributions found in these
domains rather than to a business strategy. In the context of Wikipedia, the long tail is applied to
collect of encyclopedia articles and the viewership that each article receives. As a point of
reference, consider that the 2008 Britannica Encyclopedia Suite contains 65,000 articles, which
is well less than 5% of the millions of articles in the English Wikipedia. During the last three
months of 2007 the top 65,000 Wikipedia articles ranked by visits comprise less than 60% of all
visits to Wikipedia articles. So, if we consider the remainder of Wikipedia articles to be the long
tail, it makes up over 40% of Wikipedia traffic, which is about 60 million article views per day
and rocket increase in future (Lam & Riedl, 2008).
References
Greenstein.S, & Zhu. F, (2012). Is Wikipedia Biased? Retrieved from
http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/is_wikipedia_biased
S. K. Lam & J. Riedl (2008). Is Wikipedia Growing a Longer Tail? Retrieved from
http://files.grouplens.org/papers/lam_group2009_wikipedia-longer-tail.pdf