On 6/8/06, Raphael Wegmann <raphael(a)psi.co.at>
wrote:
I certainly know Al Jazeera and
http://www.archive.org/details/mosaic
but IMHO the news reports of a media networks are far less interesting
than a "public Wikiconsensus" on "generic" topics like Islam, 9/11,
Terrorism, Israel, etc.
Apart from being exciting, those translations whould show how culturally
biased Wikipedia actually is.
Yeah, but there are so many factors that lead to the way a wikipedia
article is the way it is, and cultural bias is only one of them. The
expertises of the authors, controversialness of the topic, general
interest in the topic, etc all have a huge part to play. You could end
up comparing an article written in the spare time of two retired
academics against an article bitterly fought over for months by
leagues of "pro" and "anti" editors, being forced to source every
edit.
Well, the controversialness of the topics I mentioned and the general
interest in them are probably high in both cultures, so I wouldn't
expect any of those articles be written only by two editors.
OTOH the POVs of the administrators can/probably have an
disproportionate weight on the bias as well.
--
Raphael