« Wikipedia's Systemic Bias | Main | The Veeps » Ethan on WikipediaIn my last post, I should have included a link to Ethan Zuckerman's post about bias in Wikipedia and the CROSSBOW project formed to deal with it. CROSSBOW is resonant with Ethan's other work to bring developing nations into the conversation. He says While I think these are all valid directions, I feel the solution to systemic bias in Wikipedia is the same as the solution to systemic bias in open source software development and in the blogosphere: broaden the sphere of producers. Part of what makes Wikipedia great is that people write about subjects they're knowledgeable and passionate about. I think it's possible that CROSSBOW participants will become sufficiently knowledgeable about the civil war in Guinea-Bissau that they can write about the conflict... but I bet the article would greatly benefit from the perspective of someone who survived the conflict. I think CROSSBOW is mostly likely to succeed if it can recruit people around the world to participate in the Wikipedia project - in their own languages and in English - to help start filling the blank spots in Wikipedia and helping it reach its full potential.Ethan is doing other work (aka BlogAfrica) to make the blogosphere a worldwide multicultural phenomenon. jon posted this at 10:54 AM |
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