User:Guettarda/Wikipediology

Wikipediology - serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist.

What are some of the issues that would interest me:


 * Systemic bias
 * Role of the arbcomm
 * Voting
 * Race and ethnicity
 * Western-centric "truth"
 * WP:V, which is subject to bias in the distribution of sources
 * functioning of *FD, RFA
 * Trolling
 * The role of experts, SPOV


 * A few years ago I had an interesting conversation with a South African "coloured" academic. She said that she was happier dealing with openly racist Afrikaaners than she was with Anglo South Africans who pretended that they were colourblind.

From DCV: I think Wikipedia management (whoever the hell that is) should seriously consider calling in and paying someone with some common sense and expertise in such matters some serious money to review how Wikipedia functions as a virulently racist, white-dominated system

- What do we tolerate, and what do we clamp down on?

We tolerate racists and ultra-nationalists. We tolerate some fringe ideas, and reject others.

How is Afrocentrism received? How is historical revisionism received? How is Wikipedia different from the rest of the world? How does it differ from academia?