the speaker of a traditional oral story isnt the primary source there is no
original research in the story they are just retelling with audible pen
rather than a ink pen, the primary source is somewhere back in time. The
almost identical similarities that traditional oral knowledge have with
that of written knowledge makes them amazing sources.
When its all distilled own the only difference is that western sources
demand a tree is turned into paper and ink added to the paper before its
accepted knowledge
On 10 May 2018 at 18:03, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
"The summary of the canon of knowledge".. Wow.. I just tweeted that thanks
to the German Wikipedia we know about 20% more members of Parliament from
Chad. Now we know about 12. My #AfricaGap project will follow developments
around African national politicians. We suck when Africa is considered.
What we have in Wikidata reflects this.
It is relatively easy to add information in Wikidata about Africa.
Importing lists of politicians, I once did after South African national
elections and it shows, is easy. From our mouths we hear that we want to do
more about / for Africa but the proof is in what we see. What could be is
in our hands.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/Africa
On 10 May 2018 at 11:53, FRED BAUDER <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
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From: Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, 10 May 2018 04:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
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...because of our rules regarding references. Oddly,
Wikipedia can at best only echo the systemic bias, but will never be able
to correct it."
Nothing odd, it's baked in: Wikipedia is a summary of the canon of
knowledge, the corpus of generally accepted knowledge.
The knowledge industry could do better. And when it does, Wikipedia will
reflect that. in the meantime it is helpful if gender and other bias
issues
are noted and accommodated. Our mission is more
modest than full
correction
of all bias, but we can contribute or even lead.
Fred
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