[Foundation-l] Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

David Richfield, 27/07/2011 09:35:
> One of the most frequent complaints about Wikipedia, which I have seen
> in contexts such as the Wikipedia overview of World History and on
> websites that are critical of Wikipedia, is that it has an endemic
> bias towards Western, English-language information.  As long as
> Wikipedia is completely reliant on paper sources, this is unlikely to
> change.  The Oral Citations project is a brave attempt to light a
> candle instead of just cursing the darkness.

And a point I'd like to add is that this applies also to Europe... For 
instance the whole it.wikisource WikiProject about Italian folk music 
http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:CantaStoria and Italian proverbs 
on it.wikiquote; both have more or less written guidelines and practices 
which (despite difficulties) allow oral sources because otherwise the 
work would sometimes be impossible. And we've had decades of studies in 
these fields...

Nemo