Stan Shebs wrote:
Puppy wrote:
[...] it seems people are focusing
on cleaning rather than bias. I wrote about cleaning; I was attempting
to illustrate underlying thought patterns and paradigms which led to the
cleaning imbalance. It seems now the focus has moved to the cleaning,
and that is my fault, I apologize for poor focus.
[[Systemic bias]] in the WP sense is more about article content and
quality rather than editor activities; for instance, we have more
extensive info on the presidents of the US than of Gabon, not as a
conscious decision but as side effect of being anglophone instead of
francophone, access to source material, etc. It seems tricky to identify
systemic bias that is gender-specific but not based on incorrect
stereotypes (puts me in mind of the old line about how there are only
two jobs that are single-gender - wet nurse and sperm donor :-) ), but
perhaps I'm unaware of articles that are obviously missing/stubly to others.
Stan
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Article quality and content reflect the bias of their authors; whether
internal or external (access to sources, exposure to topics) that is
the issue. Your example is of geographical/political bias. There is also
religious bias (see my user page), and many other biases on Wikipedia.
This thread is about gender bias, note the subject: wrt gender: as in,
with regard to gender, ie; gender bias. It has expanded to note that
there may be gender bias or at least gender imbalance within the editor
pool on Wikipedia, and explored various possible reasons. Your email
does not seem to be addressing any of that. I am not sure what you are
saying with your email: are you saying that geopolitical bias is more
rampant and deserves more attention than gender bias? Are you saying
gender bias is hard to identify? Please clarify.
-kc-
I would be curious; there's been a lot of hypothetical discussion on
these points, but I haven't seen much in the way of Wikipedia specific
gender bias issue claims made in the discussion.
I know it happens, in real life and in online discussions. I can see
some areas where women might think the WP way of doing things was
biased. But I would like to hear the specifics you are concerned
about.
Thanks...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com