Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-10 Thread Delirium
In terms of specific articles to create, there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles That project collects articles that exist in wide range of other encyclopedias, but don't yet exist on Wikipedia. However that's not covering quite the same

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-10 Thread Rand McRanderson
I wonder if we could do a survey of readers from underrepresented groups. Even if a group is underrepresented as editors that doesn't mean they ate underrepresented as readers (for example women) (plus survey results could be cited in potential deletion discussions) We may want to think about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-10 Thread Dennis During
English Wiktionary has made a modest step toward ameliorating the FUll Text On the Net bias by reducing for less-attested languages the requirement for three citations of a word in use to just one. The result is more coverage at somewhat greater risk of making a mistake in the entry

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-09 Thread Anders Wennersten
There are probably be some common trends over all language version like we are stronger in areas like Server software and Skateboard tricks then Fashion and Cosmetics. But to really find the weak areas you need to find out this by each language version. And here I believe we will find quite

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Coombe
The English Wikipedia has attempted a (non-exhaustive) list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias Peter On 9 December 2013 07:35, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com wrote: In various research and media articles is written that in several subject groups Wikipedia is