"Matthew Brown" wrote
The postings are also interesting from the
point-of-view of finding
what turns off qualified people from contributing Wikipedia.
Well, lack of time, obviously ...
Unsurprisingly, both blogs mention that the whole
'notability' mess is
a big barrier, and a big part of our systemic bias.
Our concept of notability is anyway not transparent. It would not be an improvement,
necessarily, to have a clearer criterion with a worse outcome. If you target the systemic
bias thing, it is fairly clearly the case of not enough 'minority interest'
articles created, rather than too many deleted, though.
Academics are going to focus on the borderline cases: the way their minds work. We have
least to say about those, really.
Charles
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