Talk:Geographical bias on Wikipedia

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Self-refs and other "unreliable" sources[edit]

These my give some hints how to expand the article. I am surprized this article is misssing from Wikipedia despite the subject being talked about many times on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance
Task force/Recommendations/Local Language
Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)
WP:LOCAL
Wikipedia:Systemic bias
Template:Globalize
Template:Geographical imbalance
Template:Over-coverage
Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Geography (it looks like the subproject is low on activity)
Quote: "As of March 11, 2011, there are 1,200,616 geolocated points in English Wikipedia. 1,088,292 (90.64%) are located in the Northern Hemisphere, 112,324 (9.36%) in the Southern one"
Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-04-26/Community view: "It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias" by user:Indy beetle
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-13/WikiProject report: "WikiProject Years" by user:Cryptic C62: talks about geobias as well
Geographically densest Wikipedia coverage (Data from Wikipedia-World as of the March 2011 database dump)

Relevance of city light map?[edit]

I understand that it's similar, but I don't see why that map should go on this page. This article has nothing to do with light. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:19, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has to do with population density and technological advanceness, but I am not going to sweat over this. There was some source which linked wikipedians' density with internet access and I thought city lights is a good approximation of this correlation. Self-RevertedLembit Staan (talk) 23:35, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Available sources[edit]

Has anyone done a study correlating Wikipedia's geographical coverage with available reliable sources? If there is no citeable source we cannot create an article. In this regard, how much is Wikipedia a proxy for availability of sources? · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:38, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]