Hoi,
When you consider that many if not most US mayors of a city with over
25.000 inhabitants of the 19th century have a Wikipedia article, it is
relevant to notice that most South African members of the National
Assemblee do not have an article [1].
When you consider that English is a major language in South Africa it says
a lot about the bias of Wikipedia. It also does not take much effort to
bring this information to you. It took several hours of adding them to
Wikidata. It is also far from complete. It does however make the point.
Yes, we can spend money on researching the quality of the English Wikipedia
in a narrow band and, yes health information is important but there is a
concerted effort under way to maintain a high quality of information. The
most it will do is provide more information about things we more or less
already know.
The question that I would like to raise is: how are we going to make
available the information that is dormant in Wikipedia? The aim of the WMF
is after all "sharing the sum of all knowledge"...
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=CLAIM[39%3A16744266]
On 8 May 2014 08:21, Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> wrote:
> For sv:wp we only look at quality and reliability (and coverage) only for
> specific subjects areas. I am very skeptical of the value of a general
> study as we already know we are awfully weak in many areas, like geographic
> entities in African countries.
> Some examples of our findings
> *Swedish adm unts: 100% or close to for coverage, reliability and quality
> in articles. Also are we working to establish a close link to Wikidata, to
> make sure all other version can get the same results in corresponding
> articles
> *Birds that are present in Sweden: also here 100% for coverage,
> reliability and quality in articles. This because of a dedicated, competent
> and enthusiastic workgroup
> *Medicin. One of our problem areas. Also it is important to know the
> Swedish government has since long uphold a very qualified webbbased
> information base of health related subjects, so we do not want the svwp in
> any way to be in contradiction of this "official" info. We also found
> problems with articles developed in the medicin project as they had
> recommendation of thing like penicilin use that different from what Swedish
> medicine practise said. We solved this partly buy removing part of this
> info, but to generalize on this get absurd, make it shorter then quality
> and reliabilty goes up
>
> So I wonder if you base assumption of studies of "reliability of
> Wikipedia's content" actually are relevant
>
> Anders
>
>
>
>
> Anthony Cole skrev 2014-05-07 22:17:
>
> Could someone please point me to all the studies the WMF have conducted
>> into the reliability of Wikipedia's content? I'm particularly interested
>> in
>> the medical content, but would also like to look over the others too.
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
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