On Monday 12 September 2011 02:01 PM, David Gerard wrote: > [subject changed] > > > On 12 September 2011 08:46, Yaroslav M. Blanter<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Right, but we do have this systemic bias already in place: in ALL our >> projects, the articles on localities in Sweden are longer and better >> written (and better illustrated) than the articles on localities in Burkina >> Faso. We could indeed initiate smth like an effort to improve articles on >> localities in Burkina Faso (which may be combined with the outreach effort >> in the global South or whatever keywords are currently used), but it is >> clear to me that the overlap between users participating in WLM and users >> capable of writing articles on Burkina Faso is close to zero if it at all >> exists. > > Basically, we need to recruit more editors. The work on how to do > usably reliable sourcing other than English-language printed works may > help too.
One interesting thing regarding "oral" sources (beyond just the scope of the oral citations project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations) is that we have the opportunity to take audio-visual culture (especially audio-visual culture produced on the internet) seriously. I live in South India, and South Indian cooking, for instance, is far more likely to end up on Youtube than in a printed book. At the same time, it's likely that a young kid growing up in the US, who has always had the internet, might find that it's easier to cite social media on a place like Quora. In both cases (for the person living in a rich economy with a huge publishing industry, and a person in a poorer economy, without a major publishing industry), the knowledge ecosystem is different to the one that we typically recognise and allow, and that's something we can potentially take advantage of. > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
