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(a)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.