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On 12 September 2011 08:46, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@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.
- d.
On Monday 12 September 2011 02:01 PM, David Gerard wrote:
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On 12 September 2011 08:46, Yaroslav M. Blanterputevod@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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