New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias

Bjork‐James, Carwil

doi:10.1080/13614568.2020.1865463

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“…As Bjork‐James (2021) notes, WP editors have always been aware of systemic under‐representation of minority groups among editors, participants, and knowledge on WP. The imbalances of community demographics “filter into Wikipedia’s policies, community interactions, and collective culture in ways that maintain and amplify disparities in participation and content” (p. 210).…”

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“…Several recent articles have provided possible strategies to begin this change and counter systemic bias. Bjork‐James (2021) argues that the decolonization work in academia has resulted in many peer‐reviewed articles that both meet WP’s reliability policies and overturn historical narratives of Western dominance and superiority. His suggested approach is to replace dominant narratives with more inclusive ones by using productive interventions and critical readings of current content with the support of existing reliable sources.…”

Section: Background and Related Studiesmentioning

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Editorial Behaviors for Biasing Wikipedia Articles

Morris-O'Connor

Strotmann²,

Zhao

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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As the vital source of information on the Web that it has long become, Wikipedia (WP) has developed detailed policies and guidelines for contributing to it as well as for resolving conflicts with a goal to ensure that all important viewpoints are represented fairly and supported by trustworthy published resources. However, WP has long been criticized for systemic biases in its content, which are often implemented and maintained through the use of these same WP policies and guidelines. The present study explores editorial behaviors of a selected editor who succeeded in biasing a set of WP articles. By selecting an editor to examine through a big‐data approach, this study can serve as an objective crosscheck for previously reported tactics for introducing and maintaining bias observed from personal experiences of disputes on WP, and could provide evidence to generate empirically grounded hypotheses concerning editorial practices indicative of bias. It was found that editorial behavior around deletion and erasure is an important strategy for implementing and maintaining bias on WP, and WP policies and guidelines are used to support and validate the silencing of other voices.

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Section: Background and Related Studiesmentioning

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Editorial Behaviors for Biasing Wikipedia Articles

Morris-O'Connor

Strotmann²,

Zhao

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…With the increasing plaformisation of knowledgefrom the prevalence of Wikipedia and Quora to Youtube, Twitter and Meta rivalling traditional news sources (Bruckman, 2022;Carwil, 2021;Marchal et al, 2020;von Nordheim et al, 2018) over the past two decades, however, these approaches have both become more palatable and less romanticised. Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius (2016, p. 1) frames the critical museum as having potential to be a "forum" which counteracts hierarchies of information, a point which seems especially convincing for future audiences of digital natives who do not delineate between information obtained through a book, a blog, or a TikTok video.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contextualising the Contested: Xr as Experimental Museology

Rivera-Carlisle

2023

Heranca

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Museums are becoming increasingly multi-medial experiences and with the emergence of the metaverse (Coates, 2021), immersive technologies (XR) are projected to form an important part of future museum experiences. With options to provide a multiplicity of non-hierarchical information, support individualised paths through exhibitions, and experiential visits, XR has the potential to help keep visitors engaged around complex and nuanced information (Mulcahy, 2017). Working on devices that most museum visitors already own, XR technologies present a promising move towards more inclusivity, accessibility, and active audience engagement. Contributing to research on the multiple uses of XR in UK museums, this paper focuses on how XR can be operationalised to address contested displays in Western museums. Using an external app for the British Museum as an example, this paper discusses the challenges arising from this intersection, including the entrenchment of immersive technologies in colonial power dichotomies, the risks of performative virtual interventions, and the conflicting agencies museums, companies, and individuals must navigate in this context. The author suggests, as a possible experimental approach, wiki-based XR interactions which engage with non-Eurocentric epistemologies and are co-created by communities commonly disenfranchised in Western museum spaces.

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“…Scholars in a range of disciplines have integrated Wikipedia in the classroom to support students to use their writing to create Wikipedia pages for underrepresented subjects, topics, and biographies in the digital encyclopedia. For one, anthropologists have used Wikipedia in the classroom to have students fill content gaps of Native Americans and indigenous peoples (Bjork-James, 2021;Pharao Hansen, 2016). Likewise, Wikipedia has proven useful to Africana Studies in reorganizing online space to be more illustrative of the diversity of race, class, and gender in the social world (Ezell, 2021).…”

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Latinx Authorship and Representation in Digital Spaces: Wikipedia as a Tool to Decolonize the HSI Classroom

Ramirez

Marquez

2021

AMAE Journal

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Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is accessed by over 1.5 billion users each month, yet remains stigmatized in the academic world. Many faculty demonstrate reluctance in allowing students to use Wikipedia as part of their research and writing projects due to the open access nature of the site and have all but banned its use in their courses. In this article, we evaluate implications of our pedagogical decision to embed a Wikipedia editing assignment into our respective undergraduate courses at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in South Texas. First, we describe students’ initial reactions to Wikipedia as disrupting the classroom. Second, we examine the outcomes of the assignment in our Latinx students’ recognizing their work on Wikipedia as an act of decolonizing the classroom. In particular, we show the extent to which students a) claim authority, b) develop an ownership of knowledge, c) forge identities as public scholars, and d) develop a civic responsibility through their work on Wikipedia. We conclude with a discussion of recommendations for implementing assignments on digital citizenship in college classrooms, particularly in HSIs.

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New maps for an inclusive Wikipedia: decolonial scholarship and strategies to counter systemic bias

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Editorial Behaviors for Biasing Wikipedia Articles

Editorial Behaviors for Biasing Wikipedia Articles

Contextualising the Contested: Xr as Experimental Museology

Latinx Authorship and Representation in Digital Spaces: Wikipedia as a Tool to Decolonize the HSI Classroom

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