On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you're looking to have the students engage with Wikipedia's systemic
bias, I think it might be more worthwhile to have them evaluate existing
deletion debates (and similar discussions) -- rather than having them
contribute directly to Wikipedia.
That's an interesting idea, Pete! If that sounds like a meaningful
classroom exercise, I'd be happy to get involved.
My dissertation research used deletion debates as a case study -- the
Research Newsletter has a couple of writeups here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2012/September#cite_ref…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/May#In_brief
I think it would be easier for them to look at a larger number of cases,
and observe without having their personal attachment
to an article come
into play, if they read stuff that they haven't been involved in.
Detachment certainly helps!
Another way to look at systemic bias is to connect to current research
about how
- geographic coverage varies
- language editions have different depths and coverage
Happy to talk further if that interests anybody...
-Jodi
-Pete
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