--- David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/6/1 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
How does simply having what is basically a
placeholder entry for each
town/village/city etc. alleviate systemic bias?
Most of these articles will
be ignored completely after creation,
I think you're dead wrong there. How many Rambot articles are untouched?
Creating 2 million more articles that won't be
touched for a decade
[citation needed]
- d.
The obvious response to that is that the Rambot articles have been added to because they're articles on places full of english speaking people who have internet access.
A small fishing village in Cambodia, or a community of 100 people in Kenya, may well have no internet access at all, and if they have it, they would not likely be visiting the English wikipedia as they wouldn't likely speak English.