Just how representative is the world’s largest encyclopedia?Featured:Associate Professor Heather Ford: Head Of Discipline Digital and Social Media, UTSProduced and Presented by: Lawrence BullMusic: Ha-He by Just a BandThe world’s biggest encyclopedia has a big problem. Female editors at Wikipedia are outnumbered by a factor of eight. Africans are underrepresented by a factor of 17. The bias is built into the code, and that code is programming our future. If Wikipedia – one of the largest databases of information on the internet and now used to train neutral networks – is biased, then how can we rely on it be a source of balanced information? Think: Digital Futures’ producer Lawrence Bull investigates.