Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Archive 5

message: The above subject is on this fortnights To Do list. I have created a new article for Mohammed Dib, from the Algeria section. Also I've wikified the Algeria section with as many birth and death dates as I could find, and added more authors. The authors and dates I added were also added to the List of African writers. Additionally, I created a List of Algerian writers article, and an 'Algerian writers' category. It would be good if a few people could choose a country, and an author from that country to concentrate on.- Xed 15:36, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Comrade Shorne has agreed to concentrate on Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe. I choose Benin and Togo.  Go to Talk:List of African writers (by country) to add yourself to the list - Xed 22:47, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks in advance to those who assist with this article. There's plenty of work to be done on all areas of this fascinating continent, and it doesn't require any expertise (which is a good thing; otherwise I wouldn't be able to contribute much). I've already learnt about a number of interesting authors and have added a couple to the (long) list of those that I intend to read. Shorne 06:43, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of African writers (by country)]] 

message: Look at the other CotW pages. CSB should be this simple. The page should just have a couple of paragraphs outlining the aim of the project and a voting section. All the other stuff can be on a separate page. - Xed 23:16, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page is still far, far, far, far too long 

message: Hi.  I'm not part of this project per se, but if anyone's interested I could use help on the Caucasus region (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and parts of southern Russia.)  Our coverage is messy and incomplete, and there's a lot of confusion where several historical figures have the same name, or the same person is known by multiple names (or multiple transliterations.) Isomorphic 20:38, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be very much appreciated. — Trilobite (Talk) 14:19, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for assistance

message: Thought it worth flagging the major success of this article:
* It won Wikipedia:Danny%27s_contest for best new article against a strong field
* Attained featured article status
* Featured today. 
Congratulations to User:SimonP who did most of the work. 
:ChrisG 20:20, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Economy of Africa]] Featured on main page (13/11/2004)

message: Started on making the CotW more like the others here: Wikipedia:CSB_Collaboration_of_the_Week. Request that someone else carries on with the work. - Xed 02:18, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing and simplifying CotW

message: I have been collecting a few linguistic topics with a limited point of view (LPOV). This is clearly another area suffering from systemic bias, so I've made a new section on the Open Tasks page. I hope more internationally-oriented linguists will join us!  — mark ✎ 11:07, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linguistics 

message: by User:Solitude
-Xed 00:29, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  COTW scorecard 

message: I am a true believer in this project and appreciate all the work Xed and everyone else has put into it. The truth is, though, that we are dealing with difficult topics, in which information is difficult to obtain. To help with some of the real countries that have less information than Middle Earth or the Klingon Empire, I have begun to write to their embassies and governments, describing Wikipedia and asking them to send us information and images that we can incorporate into our encyclopedia. I encourage others to do the same. I would be happy to provide a sample letter as well as email addresses to anyone who wishes. So far, I have sent emails to representatives of Papua New Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste, Saint Lucia, Dominica, and Ethiopia. I think it would be best to contact countries in the Francophonie in French, but that is beyond my abilities (but maybe someone else can do it ...) Danny 03:11, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this is a really good idea, Danny - what sort of responses have you gotten so far? Ambi 03:18, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: None so far, but I only started this afternoon, and it is a Friday. I am hoping to hear something next week. Danny 03:23, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: A New Approach

message: I am very slowly moving forward with this restructuring, partially because I simply don't have the technological know how to make an overall to do list, which is basically the centre piece of our re design, and partially because I don't want to do everything on my own. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could begin work on the to do list so that we can get a real working model going to see if it works or if people hate it and we have to try again. Peregrine981 04:49, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
:I'm trying to conscript a couple of people who are good with tables from the Australian project. Haven't been able to track them down yet. Ambi 05:18, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building 

message: I've been thinking vaguely about the categories, and I'd like peoples' opinions. Would we rather have subcategory lists taken from "developing world" being geographically based, or thematically based? Currently we have done subject, as in geography, history, and politics. We could alternately do, Africa, South America, Asia.... I have no particular preference, but I thought I'd see what people think.Peregrine981 12:00, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
:The thematic option (geog, poli, hist) seems to make more sense. - Xed 18:06, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: Just posted an article (as a guest) on Head Heeb here. Hope it gets some of the fine readers of Head Heeb interested in CSB. - Xed 18:06, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head Heeb 

message: So I decided I'd try and do a bit of work on Saint Kitts and Nevis this afternoon. I managed to fix the information about its National Assembly, which was completely wrong, due to bad State Department information. But then I decided to come up with a list of its members, and ran into a bit of trouble.
I can get the names of the eleven elected members easily enough, and I can get the names of the two members that the government appoints, because they're in the cabinet, which was widely reported. However, the opposition also appoints one member, and I can't find his or her name anywhere. Any ideas for how I might be able to get this? Any help would be appreciated. Ambi 05:41, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Help!

message: Since I don't know how to create templates, I would like to ask for some help and some suggestions here. I've noticed that almost all the generalized topic lists on the Wikipedia are almost exclusively or at least substantially devoted to information related to Europe and North America. For example, the Superstar article has a single Bollywood star. So what I did for that article was take an existing template and modified it. What I would like to have is a template that could be added to either the top or bottom of lists that would say something like: "This list is incomplete; you can help to [expand it], especially with [fill in the blank here] from outside of Europe and North America. This template could then be added to Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists for everyone to use." gK ¿? 11:01, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: New list template suggestion