Towards Ongoing Detection of
Linguistic Bias on Wikipedia
Karthic Madanagopal
karthic11@tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA
James Caverlee
caverlee@tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA
Wiki Workshop 2021

Neutral Point Of View (NPOV)
“Wikipedia articles needs to be written fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible
without editorial bias”
“The couple had only been together since early 2014.”
“The three shared anti-government views, including opposition
to gun control and anger at the federal government's handling
of the Waco Siege and the incident at Ruby Ridge.”
Wiki Page “2021 storming of the United States Capitol”
(2 million views before numerous NPOV edits)
Wiki Workshop 2021

Initial Investigation
Precision: 77%
Precision: 89%
Precision: ???
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia Political Speech Reviews
Wikipedia Political Speech Reviews Generated Corpus
Generative Model
Bias Classifier
Bias Classifier
Bias Classifier
Wiki Workshop 2021