[Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 05:53, Shii <shii at shii.org> wrote:
> Five hours later (hmm, 9AM EST...), a reviewer finally looked at my
> article and failed me on one count: THE FACT THAT THE EVENT TOOK PLACE
> IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. No joke. He informed me that because the people
> at the press conference were not speaking English, and the reporting
> on the article was not in English, it was likely the article would not
> pass anyone's review. I asked for clarification on this astounding
> statement, requested another review for the article, and waited.
>
> And waited.
>
> And waited.
>
> And waited.
>

Wikinews doesn't have a systematic bias against non-Western topics.

Wikinews has a systematic bias towards bureaucracy.

I wrote a story about the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra being protested
in London and it took four days to be published.

The Wikinews review process is slow and broken but it handles
non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile

-- 
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>