Social class bias on Wikipedia
has been criticized for having a systemic social class bias in its coverage, due to an under-representation of lower class people within its editor base. Many of the arguments made regarding the systemic bias against women and racialised people on also apply to people of lower social class, as for example a small presence within the technology sector, and a relative lack of reliable access to the Internet, is also prone to so called "edit wars", which in turn reinforces the issue.
Since an online project such as develops a distinctive online culture, which in turn is relatively dominated by the majority of editors, this makes it harder for anyone who doesn't fit to improve . Since is written primarily by higher class strata the linguistic content of the pages also may reflect a tone generally alien to lower class people, e.g. in the use of passives and the reference to adverbs and adjectives.
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Since an online project such as develops a distinctive online culture, which in turn is relatively dominated by the majority of editors, this makes it harder for anyone who doesn't fit to improve . Since is written primarily by higher class strata the linguistic content of the pages also may reflect a tone generally alien to lower class people, e.g. in the use of passives and the reference to adverbs and adjectives.
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