Hoi,
"The summary of the canon of knowledge".. Wow.. I just tweeted that thanks
to the German Wikipedia we know about 20% more members of Parliament from
Chad. Now we know about 12. My #AfricaGap project will follow developments
around African national politicians. We suck when Africa is considered.
What we have in Wikidata reflects this.
It is relatively easy to add information in Wikidata about Africa.
Importing lists of politicians, I once did after South African national
elections and it shows, is easy. From our mouths we hear that we want to do
more about / for Africa but the proof is in what we see. What could be is
in our hands.
Thanks,
GerardM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/Africa
On 10 May 2018 at 11:53, FRED BAUDER <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jane Darnell <[email protected]>
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>
> ...because of our rules regarding references. Oddly,
> Wikipedia can at best only echo the systemic bias, but will never be able
> to correct it."
>
> Nothing odd, it's baked in: Wikipedia is a summary of the canon of
> knowledge, the corpus of generally accepted knowledge.
>
> The knowledge industry could do better. And when it does, Wikipedia will
> reflect that. in the meantime it is helpful if gender and other bias issues
> are noted and accommodated. Our mission is more modest than full correction
> of all bias, but we can contribute or even lead.
>
> Fred
>
>
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