Hoi, When you consider that many if not most US mayors of a city with over 25.000 inhabitants of the 19th century have a Wikipedia article, it is relevant to notice that most South African members of the National Assemblee do not have an article [1].
When you consider that English is a major language in South Africa it says a lot about the bias of Wikipedia. It also does not take much effort to bring this information to you. It took several hours of adding them to Wikidata. It is also far from complete. It does however make the point.
Yes, we can spend money on researching the quality of the English Wikipedia in a narrow band and, yes health information is important but there is a concerted effort under way to maintain a high quality of information. The most it will do is provide more information about things we more or less already know.
The question that I would like to raise is: how are we going to make available the information that is dormant in Wikipedia? The aim of the WMF is after all "sharing the sum of all knowledge"... Thanks, GerardM
[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=CLAIM%5B39%3A16744266]
On 8 May 2014 08:21, Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
For sv:wp we only look at quality and reliability (and coverage) only for specific subjects areas. I am very skeptical of the value of a general study as we already know we are awfully weak in many areas, like geographic entities in African countries. Some examples of our findings *Swedish adm unts: 100% or close to for coverage, reliability and quality in articles. Also are we working to establish a close link to Wikidata, to make sure all other version can get the same results in corresponding articles *Birds that are present in Sweden: also here 100% for coverage, reliability and quality in articles. This because of a dedicated, competent and enthusiastic workgroup *Medicin. One of our problem areas. Also it is important to know the Swedish government has since long uphold a very qualified webbbased information base of health related subjects, so we do not want the svwp in any way to be in contradiction of this "official" info. We also found problems with articles developed in the medicin project as they had recommendation of thing like penicilin use that different from what Swedish medicine practise said. We solved this partly buy removing part of this info, but to generalize on this get absurd, make it shorter then quality and reliabilty goes up
So I wonder if you base assumption of studies of "reliability of Wikipedia's content" actually are relevant
Anders
Anthony Cole skrev 2014-05-07 22:17:
Could someone please point me to all the studies the WMF have conducted
into the reliability of Wikipedia's content? I'm particularly interested in the medical content, but would also like to look over the others too. Cheers.
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