On 4/12/06, Molu Bosu Palit <loom91(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Still, it's true that a large (possibly
majority) portion of WIkipedia users are American. SO the question we need to ask is, is
this Systemic Bias desirable? Should WIkipedia cater to the tastes of its majority of
users or to the majority of its potential users? Do we seek to be usable for the global
population or for the American population? It seems from previous discussions that
there's no consensus on this issue.
To continue to be a complete pain in the arse, I would have to ask
what you mean by "consensus on this issue". Who was asked? If you
asked a group of Australians whether Wikipedia should be biased
towards Australia or be unbiased, I'm not sure we would come up with
"consensus" either.
Steve