FW: [Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant

[Fred Bauder]

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From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:11:17 -0700
To: "Mark Williamson , wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org" <node.ue at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant

On the English Wikipedia you can expect people of many nationalities to show
up and participate in debates about articles which concern people of other
than English cultural orientation. Chinese edit the People's Republic of
China article and the Tibet article; Ukrainians, Poles and Russians weigh in
on [[Collectivisation in the USSR]] as do advocates of Stalin. American and
English culture are international cultures and diverse viewpoints are
expected.

To a certain extent people are "spoken for", Tibetans, Ainus and victims of
the Great Famine don't show up themselves.

Fred

> From: Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>, wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:35:13 -0700
> To: wikipedia-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Collective POV ("systemic bias") rampant
> 
> And thus, the fact that as a general rule more pages at en.wikipedia
> are viewed and edited by Americans than anybody else, and by a much
> larger margin by more people from Anglophone countries than anywhere
> else, is systemic bias.