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Systemic bias is the inherent tendency of a process to favour particular outcomes. On the English Wikipedia, most editors are white, male, technically-oriented, educated and from the northern hemisphere. The underrepresentation of editors who are non-white, women and from other parts of the world has led to a lack of coverage of issues and topics related to, or of interest to these underrepresented editors.
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Systemic bias is the inherent tendency of a process to favour particular outcomes. On the English Wikipedia, most editors are white, male, technically-oriented, educated and from the northern hemisphere. The underrepresentation of editors who are non-white, women and from other parts of the world has led to a lack of coverage of issues and topics related to, or of interest to these underrepresented editors.