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From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:11:17 -0700
To: "Mark Williamson , wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org" <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant
On the English Wikipedia you can expect people of many nationalities to show
up and participate in debates about articles which concern people of other
than English cultural orientation. Chinese edit the People's Republic of
China article and the Tibet article; Ukrainians, Poles and Russians weigh in
on [[Collectivisation in the USSR]] as do advocates of Stalin. American and
English culture are international cultures and diverse viewpoints are
expected.
To a certain extent people are "spoken for", Tibetans, Ainus and victims of
the Great Famine don't show up themselves.
Fred
From: Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>, wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:35:13 -0700
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant
And thus, the fact that as a general rule more pages at en.wikipedia
are viewed and edited by Americans than anybody else, and by a much
larger margin by more people from Anglophone countries than anywhere
else, is systemic bias.