Another fact to consider is that both doctors and patients have been obtaining most of their medical information from Wikipedia for years:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/doctors-1-source-for-healthcare-information-wikipedia/284206/ Christophe, does the Board agree that the Foundation should study bias in the wikipedias' economics articles and its impact on society? On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:01 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > > This paper suggests that Wikipedia has become more influential than a large > proportion of the peer reviewed literature: > > http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf > > On a related note, I tried to reply off-list to the Foundation official who > recently claimed that my assertion that systemic bias in the English > Wikipedia's economics articles has deleterious real-world implications was, > "framed with a leading question," and "filled with a good deal of > speculation," by asking what she thought of the evidence I presented on how > the "Fair Tax" article and the other Mises-influenced walled garden articles > had been successfully gamed into appearing first in the automatically > generated set of "related articles" on articles with an opposite economic > perspective, such as "Making Work Pay tax credit," but there was no reply. > > Do you think this topic is something that the Foundation should study? I've > asked the Chair of the Board of Trustees to do so, but there hasn't been a > reply to that either. > > Best regards, > Jim > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:57 PM Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> For a while now I've been thinking about different ways to define and >> measure the Wikimedia movement's impact. This started for me with various >> conversations about different iterations of the WMF's Global Metrics and >> different rounds of FDC bids, but it turns out to be wider than that. >> >> This is a big and thorny topic and one where we seem to have come up with >> a >> lot of implicit answers without spending much time thinking about in any >> detail, so I've written up my thoughts as a meta-essay here: >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:The_Land/Thinking_about_the_impact_of_the_Wikimedia_movement >> >> I'd be really interested to hear other peoples' views! >> >> Chris >> >> (User:The Land) _______________________________________________ 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
