On Monday 12 September 2011 02:01 PM, David Gerard wrote:
[subject changed]
On 12 September 2011 08:46, Yaroslav M. Blanter<putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
Right, but we do have this systemic bias already
in place: in ALL our
projects, the articles on localities in Sweden are longer and better
written (and better illustrated) than the articles on localities in Burkina
Faso. We could indeed initiate smth like an effort to improve articles on
localities in Burkina Faso (which may be combined with the outreach effort
in the global South or whatever keywords are currently used), but it is
clear to me that the overlap between users participating in WLM and users
capable of writing articles on Burkina Faso is close to zero if it at all
exists.
Basically, we need to recruit more editors. The work on how to do
usably reliable sourcing other than English-language printed works may
help too.
One interesting thing regarding "oral" sources (beyond just the scope of
the oral citations project:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations) is that we have
the opportunity to take audio-visual culture (especially audio-visual
culture produced on the internet) seriously. I live in South India, and
South Indian cooking, for instance, is far more likely to end up on
Youtube than in a printed book. At the same time, it's likely that a
young kid growing up in the US, who has always had the internet, might
find that it's easier to cite social media on a place like Quora. In
both cases (for the person living in a rich economy with a huge
publishing industry, and a person in a poorer economy, without a major
publishing industry), the knowledge ecosystem is different to the one
that we typically recognise and allow, and that's something we can
potentially take advantage of.
- d.
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