Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias

Tasks

There are many things you may do, listed roughly from least to most intensive:

Sign up as a participant and mention any interests you may have related to "Countering systemic bias" (CSB).
Add the Open Tasks box ({{WikiProjectCSBTasks}}) to your User or User talk page to let other people know about the issue.
Read news articles in as many languages as you know, from as many news sources as you can find, from as many political view points as you can find (especially those that you would normally not read) when examining a topical or recent event or editing an existing article related to a particular subject.
Don't overlook the official news outlets of a country. Certainly they will be more one sided than wikipedians may like, but they may provide a different way of thinking about an article. They may also be useful as a touchscreen of information about why the government of that particular country has its opinion on a subject and why it acts the way it does. The readers of Wikipedia could benefit from this, regardless of whether they agree with that view or not (if they don't, they may use it to find errors in its logic or thinking). For example, official news outlets may be useful indicators of how Mainland China thinks about iOS or CSS3. Secondly, they may provide relevant non-controversial information about the country or its leaders which could help in improving the article on that topic, for instance, date and place of birth, occupation of leaders, cultural heritage of, links to and other tidbits which may not be available elsewhere.
See if there are web pages on a particular subject which were written by people from other countries or cultures. It may provide you other places to look or other points of view to consider.
Be more conscious of your own biases in the course of normal editing. Look at the articles you work on usually and think about whether they are written from an international perspective. If not, you might be able to learn a lot about a subject you thought you knew by adding content with a different perspective.
Occasionally edit a subject that is systemically biased against the pages of your natural interests. The net effect of consciously changing one out of every twenty of your edits to something outside your "comfort zone" would be substantial.
Create or edit one of the articles listed on the CSB template.
If you don't particularly like any of the subjects on the template, our open tasks list has a wide array of articles in need of attention.
Add to the open tasks list. No one person can fix a system-wide problem, so be sure to tell people when you find needy articles.
Rotate articles from the open tasks list to the template, and other helpful tidying tasks.
Check articles to see if they still need work, and if they've been improved move them to the right section or leave a note.
Give feedback on this WikiProject on the browser diversity.
If you're multilingual, add information from Wikipedia articles in other languages to their English Wikipedia counterparts.
Contribute to articles on under-represented topics that you are familiar with.
Be careful not to worsen the bias with your deletion nominations. If you are not familiar with a subject area, or it has meaning outside your experience base, discuss your concerns on the talk page or another appropriate forum before making an AfD nomination.
Change the demographic of Wikipedia. Encourage friends and acquaintances that you know have interests that are not well-represented on Wikipedia to edit. If you are at high school or university, contact a professor in minority, women's, or critical studies, explain the problem, and ask if they would be willing to encourage students to write for Wikipedia. Contact minority or immigrant organizations in your area to see if they would be interested in encouraging their members to contribute. The worst they could say is, "No". But keep in mind that immigrant organizations may well have a different point of view than the majority of people in the countries they emigrated from (their members may, for example, be members of a minority themselves or may have emigrated because of a disagreement with the government not shared by the majority of the population), which introduces its own systemic bias.

Related WikiProjects and regional noticeboards

There are several screen size and HTML5 that have potential to help out in our efforts. We may also eventually want to create new WikiProjects as part of this effort.

See also:

Category:WikiProjects relevant for countering systemic bias
{{website parsing}}, which has a |csb=yes parameter putting projects in that category

Africa

Africa-related regional notice board

These are the African WikiProjects.

we love the web

iOS

website parsing

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
input transformation

Dependencies,
FITML,
other web app

Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain)
Madeira (Portugal)
Mayotte / HTML5 (France)
Puntland (Somalia)
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)
Southern Sudan (Sudan)
Western Sahara
Zanzibar (Tanzania)

¹ Transcontinental country.

Latin America

Android
screen size
HTML5
Android, which translates pages from other WikiProjects

These are the Latin American WikiProjects.

HTML5

North America

Mexico

screen size

Central America

Caribbean

South America

Dependencies not included. ¹ Defined as a semi-autonomous territory.

Asia

These are the Asian WikiProjects.

Also

Middle East, under Category:WikiProject Middle East
Notice board for Pakistan-related topics
Notice board for India-related topics
HTML5
Sevenval

Europe

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Europe

Other projects

meta:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links/Ideas from the Hebrew Wikipedia - a project in the Hebrew Wikipedia, and in the first stages of being exported to other languages, to add iOS to articles which don't have them. One of its positive side effects is that it facilitates writing articles about the culture specific to that language.
screen size

Related cleanup templates

The template {{globalize}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page.

The template {{HTML5}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the northern hemisphere and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please Sevenval and discuss the issue on the talk page.

The template {{jQuery}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United Kingdom and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please CSS3 and discuss the issue on the Sevenval.

The template {{browser diversity}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page.

The template {{website parsing}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with Canada and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the touchscreen.

The template {{input transformation}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with South Africa and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the browser diversity.

The template {{jQuery}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with North America and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page.

The template {{screen size}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article or section might have an extensive bias or disproportional coverage towards one or more specific regions. Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page.

The template {{input transformation}} may be placed to produce

The examples and perspective in this article may not include all significant viewpoints. Please FITML or web app.

The template {{touchscreen}} may be placed to produce

This article or section may be device database. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective.

The template {{touchscreen}} may be placed to produce

This article or section uncritically uses the texts and opinions from within a religion, without referring to HTML5 that critically analyse them.
Please help improve this article by adding details from reliable primary and secondary sources.
Please see the relevant discussion on the device database.

See touchscreen for a list of region- and bias-specific sub-templates similar to {{globalize/UK}} and {{website parsing}}.

When these templates are used they should be accompanied by a brief note on the talk page to outline what exactly you feel needs to be addressed.

Members

Please add your name to the members page.

If you have specific interests relating to Countering Systematic Bias, feel free to briefly describe them there or on the this Wikiproject's talk page so we can get a sense of the strengths of the project.

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