Wikipedia: WikiProject Countering systemic bias

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The Wikipedia project has a systemic bias that grows naturally out of the demographic of its contributors. The encyclopedia tends to focus on certain topics while neglecting others. This project attempts to fill in the gaps left by this bias, focusing on those subjects generally neglected by Wikipedians to date. If you would like to help completing these gaps please see our "to do" list, or one of the complete sub-categories for a discussion of the bias in that topic.

See Project details for more information.

For recent progress see: Wikipedia:New articles (Systemic bias)

Here are some of the Countering Systemic Bias project open tasks. CSB is currently being simplified and fixed - see the Talk page. This template may soon be redundant. CSB collaboration of the fortnight: Second Sudanese Civil War Country carousel: A country is selected from a list every fortnight. Burkina Faso, Category, Politics, History, Blaise Compaoré, Music of Burkina Faso Voted items: Every fortnight, 5 articles are chosen in the voting section. Nigeria Labour Congress, Culture of Turkmenistan, Nadine Gordimer, List of African writers (by country), Roy Wilkins. (* Any starred articles have a limited geographic scope.)

If you would like to help, you can:

• Sign up as a participant. Participants are encouraged to put {{WikiProjectCSBTasks}} on their user page and/or watchlist.
• Add to our open tasks list, or take on one of the tasks on the list, or add the open task list page to your watchlist.
• Add {{WikiProjectCSBTasks}} to your user page or user talk page, or add Template:WikiProjectCSBTasks to your watchlist.
• Locate pages missing articles or pages that need attention. Add them to the list of Subject-matter areas and specific articles and provide a justification so others can assess priority.
• Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{WikiProjectCSBTasks}} anywhere on the page.)
• Complete open tasks and check them off the list.
• Questions? Inquire on the talk page.

Categories

Bias is manifested in many different ways on different topics. If any particular topic interests you please see the following pages:

• Geography - Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage, often in the 'Developing World', primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America. List of topics

• Politics - Political issues poorly covered by the encyclopedia.

• History - Historical areas needing to be covered.

• Art and Design

• Female-oriented

• Literature - Literature, especially non-English is poorly covered by wikipedia.

• Agriculture - Agricultural and horticultural issues.

• Linguistics - Linguistics

• Labour issues - Labour issues

• Ethnic minorities - Ethnic minorities

• Limited Geographic Scope - These articles are internally biased. That is to say, they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one.

• Developing World. All aspects of the 'Developing World', primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.
• Art and Design
• Women's studies. Female oriented subjects - Feminism, Women authors, professions with high proportion of women etc
• Non-English language literature. Particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English
• Agriculture and horticultural studies. Not typically a 'geek' concern, especially outside of botany as such
• Ethnic minorities. Under-represented ethnic minorities in the developed world etc. (and other related topics)
• Labor issues. See also the many red links in List of trade unions.
• Linguistics. Many linguistic articles suffer from an Indo-European point of view.
• Subjects which would normally be longer in other encyclopaedias
• Limited geographic scope. These articles are internally biased- that is to say they currently deal only with matters in certain countries, and often have a U.S. or developed country perspective rather than a global one.

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