Sam Blacketer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do we need affirmative action in favour of
articles about Africa?
No because we already have this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias
Which would be fine if the concept of "systemic bias" was understood
by
the very people who exhibit it. (Perhaps that's not quite the right way
to put it: individuals do though put forward views and opinions that are
representative of our various kinds of systemic bias, and this tends to
be unconsciously done on their part.) If we want a good strategy
direction, we could ask the WMF to do more to place systemic front and
centre in descriptions of the mission, as an unacceptable clamp on WP's
ability to reflect the total of global knowledge.
See for example [[Quinary]], which carries a notability query template.
The body of the article starts "Many languages^
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinary#cite_note-0> use quinary number
systems". The systemic bias of denary (base-10) people is fairly clear
here. The [[tyranny of the majority]] indeed. See [[Category
talk:Positional numeral systems]] for me getting annoyed.
Charles