I wonder if we could do a survey of readers from underrepresented groups. Even if a group is underrepresented as editors that doesn't mean they ate underrepresented as readers (for example women) (plus survey results could be cited in potential deletion discussions)
We may want to think about the WMF giving grants organizations that are doing research into the history and sociology etc. of these groups, so that the body of citable evidence becomes greater. On Dec 10, 2013 8:43 AM, "Delirium" delirium@hackish.org wrote:
In terms of specific articles to create, there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_ encyclopedic_articles
That project collects articles that exist in wide range of other encyclopedias, but don't yet exist on Wikipedia. However that's not covering quite the same concerns as the systemic-bias discussion, since many of those encyclopedias themselves have similar biases. Nonetheless this kind of comparison can be useful to find specific gaps in coverage that, equally importantly, are "actionable" in the sense that at least one source to base an article on exists.
-Mark
On 12/9/13, 9:07 PM, Peter Coombe wrote:
The English Wikipedia has attempted a (non-exhaustive) list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
Peter
On 9 December 2013 07:35, Romaine Wiki romaine_wiki@yahoo.com wrote:
In various research and media articles is written that in several subject
groups Wikipedia is missing a lot of articles and those groups are relatively unrepresented.
How can we as Wikipedia get clear which subject groups are missing?
How can we get lists of less represented subject groups and the articles in those groups?
Let us get practical, ow can we fill the gap?
Greetings, Romaine
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