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1. Animat+L2[view] [source] 2020-05-26 05:56:47
>>elsewh+(OP)
I can see worrying about harassment. "Inclusivity", though? (From the tone of the press release, they mean race and gender, not article subjects.) Wikipedia editors are anonymous unless they don't want to be. How can anyone tell?
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2. andrub+SI[view] [source] 2020-05-26 12:52:05
>>Animat+L2
Here’s what they mean by inclusivity. Right now the large majority of authors/editors on wikipedia are caucasian men from richer western countries. This causes an inherit bias in wikipedia’s content. Wikimedia rightly would like the authors to be an unbiased representative sample of society if it wants to be a representative encyclopedia (do se still use that word?)

I visited wikimedia’s HQ almost a decade ago. Back then they were trying to solve this problem by making the editor more approachable.

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