On 6/8/06, Raphael Wegmann <raphael(a)psi.co.at> wrote:
I certainly know Al Jazeera and
http://www.archive.org/details/mosaic
but IMHO the news reports of a media networks are far less interesting
than a "public Wikiconsensus" on "generic" topics like Islam, 9/11,
Terrorism, Israel, etc.
Apart from being exciting, those translations whould show how culturally
biased Wikipedia actually is.
Yeah, but there are so many factors that lead to the way a wikipedia
article is the way it is, and cultural bias is only one of them. The
expertises of the authors, controversialness of the topic, general
interest in the topic, etc all have a huge part to play. You could end
up comparing an article written in the spare time of two retired
academics against an article bitterly fought over for months by
leagues of "pro" and "anti" editors, being forced to source every
edit.
The exercise would have some merit. But if you simply want to
understand "The Arab world's point of view", there are better ways.
Steve