the speaker of a traditional oral story isnt the primary source there is no original research in the story they are just retelling with audible pen rather than a ink pen, the primary source is somewhere back in time. The almost identical similarities that traditional oral knowledge have with that of written knowledge makes them amazing sources.
When its all distilled own the only difference is that western sources demand a tree is turned into paper and ink added to the paper before its accepted knowledge
On 10 May 2018 at 18:03, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, "The summary of the canon of knowledge".. Wow.. I just tweeted that thanks to the German Wikipedia we know about 20% more members of Parliament from Chad. Now we know about 12. My #AfricaGap project will follow developments around African national politicians. We suck when Africa is considered. What we have in Wikidata reflects this.
It is relatively easy to add information in Wikidata about Africa. Importing lists of politicians, I once did after South African national elections and it shows, is easy. From our mouths we hear that we want to do more about / for Africa but the proof is in what we see. What could be is in our hands. Thanks, GerardM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/Africa
On 10 May 2018 at 11:53, FRED BAUDER fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, 10 May 2018 04:02:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems
...because of our rules regarding references. Oddly, Wikipedia can at best only echo the systemic bias, but will never be able to correct it."
Nothing odd, it's baked in: Wikipedia is a summary of the canon of knowledge, the corpus of generally accepted knowledge.
The knowledge industry could do better. And when it does, Wikipedia will reflect that. in the meantime it is helpful if gender and other bias
issues
are noted and accommodated. Our mission is more modest than full
correction
of all bias, but we can contribute or even lead.
Fred
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