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