Hi, I posted this a while ago, an investigation on gender bias where a member of Wikimedia Chile was involved, in his personal capacity though: https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4
There are many things that can be addressed individually and as a movement or collective, if we believe the conclusions are valid, which I personally do, since they are supported with data and not on our personal impressions. Cheers! El jue., may. 10, 2018 10:27, Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> escribió: > Notability and verifiability are important. They allow us to produce > reasonably reliable work. Moving away from those constraints opens the > doors to extremely unreliable material. If Wikipedia is to remain open to > anyone to edit, there do not appear to be any robust alternatives. Other > projects may work around this problem, but would then probably not be open > for anyone to edit. Or can you suggest another way? > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Béland > Sent: 10 May 2018 15:01 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems > > "Nothing odd, it's baked in: Wikipedia is a summary of the canon of > knowledge, the corpus of generally accepted knowledge." > > But it is what we accept as part of the canon of "knowledge" as Wikipedia > that could be improved. We have a very western approach to that saying that > it needs to be published in such books or journals to be notable enough, > when different cultures use different ways to build their canon of > knowledge. > > JP > User:Amqui > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:53 AM FRED BAUDER <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Sent: Thu, 10 May 2018 04:02:46 -0400 (EDT) > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gendergap approach causing problems > > > > ...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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
