On 4/12/06, Molu Bosu Palit loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
Still, it's true that a large (possibly majority) portion of WIkipedia users are American. SO the question we need to ask is, is this Systemic Bias desirable? Should WIkipedia cater to the tastes of its majority of users or to the majority of its potential users? Do we seek to be usable for the global population or for the American population? It seems from previous discussions that there's no consensus on this issue.
To continue to be a complete pain in the arse, I would have to ask what you mean by "consensus on this issue". Who was asked? If you asked a group of Australians whether Wikipedia should be biased towards Australia or be unbiased, I'm not sure we would come up with "consensus" either.
Steve