Let's have a race war then :-) BTW, despite my name (or because of it), I'm Indian/South Asian.
Now, to shift to a more serious subject. I think the good side of the Wikipedia is that it is relatively more open to all compared to any other form of knowledge production and agglomeration that we have known till this point in history. Tell me if I'm wrong.
What however needs to be taken into account, following up on Walter van Kalken, is that people in the global South/Third World/"developing" countries simply aren't contributing as much. So that diversity isn't getting reflected here. This happens because of various reasons. Lack of access, stronger tradition in oral cultures rather than written ones, lack of peer groups to encourage this, difficulties in keying-in non-Romanised texts (specially Asian languages) via computers.. whatever.
It would help if Wikipedia took on efforts to spur such contributions. Once they start, I have no doubt that the trickle will turn into a mighty river. Till that time, hold on to your faith.-- FN in Goa/India.
On 07/03/07, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
The problem is with the current rules on en.wikipedia which are totally geared towards western style relevance and references ,and the bias amongst editors, it is difficult to get the same debt for Africa, Asia and South America. Something has got to give. And the rules will never be changed because of the western pov of most of our editors. So we will have to accept that we will be weak in these areas forever. Or somehow with a miracle an exception clause has to be made for topics regarding this area.