On 11/23/06, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Puppy wrote:
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.
I'm saying that I don't know of any significant systemic bias relating
to gender. Systemic bias can happen even when everybody has good
intentions and is on their best behavior, so it's orthogonal to editor
gender, editor behavior, etc. The original post mentioned scanty
coverage of blowdryers, perhaps not a great example for reasons already
discussed; are there better examples where topics of particular interest
to women are being overlooked?
(I'm assuming you're familiar with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering
systemic bias]], which explains things better than I can. I note that
it's primarily geographical - should it have a gender subproject?)
Stan
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G'day Stan,
Going back to the original post, Keitei states* "our ballet
articles make me weep inside*." I recall that in a Guardian exercise where
experts reviewed articles in various areas, our fashion-related article was
given a very low rating.
These may be areas where we have significant work ahead of us to get our
articles up to scratch.
Regards
*Keith Old*
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Keith Old
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