Is Wikipedia Biased?

As the largest wiki ever and one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia accommodates a skyrocketing number of contributors and readers. At the end of 2011, after approximately a decade of production, Wikipedia supports 3.8 million articles in English and well over twenty million articles in all languages, and it produces and hosts content that four hundreds of millions of readers view each month. Every ranking places Wikipedia as the fifth or sixth most visited website in the United States, behind Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, YouTube, and, perhaps, eBay. In most countries with unrestricted and developed Internet sectors, Wikipedia ranks among the top ten websites visited by households. This achievement is astonishing in light of the resources deployed. Wikipedia achieved its size and high profile with minimal staff. Wikipedia is part of a not-for-profit organization. Donations entirely fund the operations. The vast majority of its content comes from volunteer contributors, who sew contributions together with editing and prose. The predominant outlook of the articles also is astonishing. Since its founding, Wikipedia aspired to present articles that lack biases. A “Neutral Point of View” (NPOV) is one of the tenets that all Wikipedia articles aspire to achieve, along with “verifiability” and “the absence of original research.” If an article reflects NPOV, then conflicting opinions are