[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi all, As following the previous email from Galder, I completely agree that this topic -if there is a trust in the work of Wikipedians and their communities, which I am sure we all do- should be primarily debated, if not fully, in the corresponding linguistical version of Wikipedia. As Jane

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I would add to the idea that this is an international mailing list where most of the users are not from the US the idea that there are other Wikipedias around that are not in English, so the coverage of details of the US elections at the English Wikipedia should be discussed... at the English

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Risker
There are already wikiprojects on English Wikipedia that work on elections.[1][2] I suggest you might want to continue this conversation there, with people who have a strong interest in US elections, and a good grasp on what is and is not likely to make a successful article. As noted before, this

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What is painfully obvious is the bias that exists. For countries in Africa we do not even know all the government ministers past and present for the last 70 years let alone that we know about past elections. At that, it is fine with me that subjects like this are raised. Thanks, GerardM

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Jane Darnell
I do feel US elections and their coverage is an international issue, especially in light of recent events that threaten democracy and could indirectly affect things like copyright on the internet. I do share concerns about “social media events” and it would be helpful to spell out how these

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Regarding a series of serious office actions / 有关于一系列的办事处行动

2021-09-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Dear Maggie and all, There have been a number of responses from the mainland Chinese media in the past week, and I found myself thinking about the two below, as well as the term "infiltration": https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234607.shtml

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
By the way, and not being completely off-topic. Thanks to the "Content translation" tool, the integration of Elia there (wich has neural translation between 6 languages, including Basque) and automatic templates developed by the Catalan wikimedians... I translated this article about the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The point is not that shenanigans in US elections are not worthy of an article, the point is that our bias towards the USA is such that we do not even know who the government ministers are of countries like Eswatini. Countries most "first worlders" do not know to pinpoint on a map. It is the