[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"David Gerard" wrote

> I'm thinking of a conversation with a feminist friend who considers
> Wikipedia hopelessly patriarchally biased and useless to harmful.

Interesting. I mean, potentially interesting if there is a feminist critique at the level of policy. 

'Systemic bias' hasn't really got that far in elaborating a theory. We do know that 'no original research' effectively cuts out ethnographic material, thus excluding many 'undocumented' things. But that's a fairly obvious point. We tend to import public domain material that comes with a slant from at least 80 years ago. But I'm not aware of a serious and general analysis that is relevant.

Charles

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