Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely: http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented-is-the-mena-region-in-wikipedia/
As biases go, omitting notable subjects in the global south doesn't have the deleterious real-world consequences that reenforcing erroneous economic hegemony does. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > Good day, > > This is not related to gender bias, but an observation I made from reading > this paper. Table 1 shows the different percentage of overlap between > different languistic versions of Wikipedia with the English Wikipedia. Do > anybody know if there are studies or reports focussed on that? > > For example, I notice that the Wikipedia with the less overlap from the > above-mentioned table is the Arabic Wikipedia. To me, it seems to indicate > another sort of bias on the English Wikipedia and other "Western" language > Wikipedias in not necessarily including biographies from those parts of the > world. Or maybe there is another "glass ceiling" not based on gender, > meaning that somebody from the Middle East for instance needs to be more > notable in average to be included on the English Wikipedia comparatively of > somebody in North America or Europe. Do we have any analysis of that? Is > that a question that is brought up in reflexions about bias? > > Thank you, > > JP > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:55 PM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The article was discussing the proportion of articles about specific >> gender and possible reasons why this situation exists. What I >> mentioned was simply one among many potential explanation. >> >> James >> >> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Eduardo Testart <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi again, >> > >> > I think the article is not related to paid editing, if you wish to >> discuss >> > that subject, you should probably open another thread. >> > >> > It would be nice if the discussion and comments can be kept on topic :) >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > >> > El sept. 22, 2017 3:49 PM, "James Heilman" <[email protected]> escribió: >> > >> > How do we know? Those who work extensively in this topic area and are >> > good at picking up paid editing make an educated guess. There are well >> > known patterns that represent paid editing. We could likely build a >> > tool that could look at all BLPs and give a numerical value to the >> > percentage that are most likely written for pay. If you look at a >> > random group of new BLPs at WP:NPP you will also get a decent idea. >> > >> > James >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Andy Mabbett >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> We know that a sizable proportion of articles >> >>> about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their >> >>> representative. >> >> >> >> We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Andy Mabbett >> >> @pigsonthewing >> >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Wikimedia-l >> >> New messages to: [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > James Heilman >> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> > wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > New messages to: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > New messages to: [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> >> -- >> James Heilman >> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > > Jean-Philippe Béland > > [image: Wikimedia Canada] Vice-président — Wikimédia Canada > <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=fr>, chapitre national > soutenant Wikipédia > Vice president — Wikimedia Canada > <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=en>, national chapter > supporting Wikipedia > 535 avenue Viger Est, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3,[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
