7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Mountain View, California
October 3-5, 2011
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Places on the map and in the cloud: representations of locality and geography in Wikipedia
Author: Randall M. Livingstone.
Abstract: This poster will present preliminary results of a study that considers the efforts of WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias, a collective of editors dedicated to combating bias on the English-language Wikipedia. Through a content analysis comparing the project to a sample from the general population, the scope of this group's labor is gauged and discussed.