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

[Samuel Klein]

Right.  Switching back to an actual wiki model (hello nupedia ;) would
likely bring back many, many more editors as well.

S

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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> Tom Morris
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