[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

[Rand McRanderson]

I wonder if we could do a survey of readers from underrepresented groups.
Even if a group is underrepresented as editors that doesn't mean they ate
underrepresented as readers (for example women) (plus survey results could
be cited in potential deletion discussions)

We may want to think about the WMF giving grants organizations that are
doing research into the history and sociology etc. of these groups, so that
the body of citable evidence becomes greater.
On Dec 10, 2013 8:43 AM, "Delirium" <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> In terms of specific articles to create, there is also
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_
> encyclopedic_articles
>
> That project collects articles that exist in wide range of other
> encyclopedias, but don't yet exist on Wikipedia. However that's not
> covering quite the same concerns as the systemic-bias discussion, since
> many of those encyclopedias themselves have similar biases. Nonetheless
> this kind of comparison can be useful to find specific gaps in coverage
> that, equally importantly, are "actionable" in the sense that at least one
> source to base an article on exists.
>
> -Mark
>
> On 12/9/13, 9:07 PM, Peter Coombe wrote:
>
>> The English Wikipedia has attempted a (non-exhaustive) list at
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 9 December 2013 07:35, Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>  In various research and media articles is written that in several subject
>>> groups Wikipedia is missing a lot of articles and those groups are
>>> relatively unrepresented.
>>>
>>> How can we as Wikipedia get clear which subject groups are missing?
>>>
>>> How can we get lists of less represented subject groups and the articles
>>> in those groups?
>>>
>>> Let us get practical, ow can we fill the gap?
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Romaine
>>>
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