David, I think we are both on the same page, but I am a bit farther in my thinking about HOW you can illustrate the biases. The mobile team coined the phrase 'ghost edits' to mean the edits we don't make while on mobile devices (I am on my iPad right now and experienced a ghost edit which will definitely not get done now because I don't care about it enough).
We need another term for the edits that are never considered, because we don't have the people to even make those 'ghost' considerations. By creating lists of topics and working with Wikidata, we can eventually make statements possible such as in the 20th century, Harvard only appointed x women to full professorship, an x percentage of the faculty, which compares favorably or not to the Sorbonne, etc. Jane Sent from my iPad
On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:38 AM, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
was expected to marry and have children, instead of becoming a professionnal musician.)
We cannot repair the unfairness of centuries past, but we can certainly try avoiding selection bias on top of it.