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These are the open tasks for the Wikiproject Countering systemic bias. Articles are listed thematically, and then by the type of assistance requested. An article stub for a feminist author would thus be found under the "Requests for expansion" section under Women's Studies.

Themes are divided into four stages: non-existent, stubby, identifiably flawed and satisfactory. "Requested articles" are pages that are entirely missing from Wikipedia. A little bit of research on the web is normally enough to write a stub. Be sure to move the list entry to the relevant section once you are done. Articles that are stubby, or otherwise lacking in content, may be found under "Requests for expansion". If something in particular is missing, such as a university article with a long list of alumni but little historical background, be sure to say so when you enter it. "Requests for review" is for articles that are of decent length but need more attention. A need for a copyedit or for a fact check by a knowledgeable reader are appropriate reasons to ask for review.

Once an article has passed through the various stages of this process it may be placed under the Satisfactory section. Satisfactory articles are well-rounded, long enough to cover the topic in reasonable detail, and lack any major flaws. They are not expected to be perfect.

This open tasks list is intended to be a complement to the various Wikipedia features such as Cleanup, Requests for expansion, Pages needing attention and peer review, and you are encouraged to add articles from this list to those pages. Many articles on this page may also be good candidates for Collaboration of the week or the Article improvement drive. If you find a particularly good article in a CSB-related area, by all means nominate it as a Featured Article candidate.

If you feel an article is neglected due to systemic bias, feel free to add it to an appropriate section or even to start a new section below. Sections describing perceived biases that do not include articles are placed at the bottom of the page. If no articles are placed within the section within a month, it will be assumed that the objection is not actionable and the section will be removed.

WikiProject Countering systemic bias open tasks
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Contents

Geography

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Most neglected countries
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Wikipedia has major holes in its geographic coverage primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Countries for improvement

The countries below have been identified as those most in need of work. They are accompanied by some online resources that may be useful in contributing to the articles. If a user feels that a country article has progressed to the level where it may be replaced by another, please seek consensus on the talk page.

  1. Benin (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Porto-Novo, Cotonou
  2. Burkina Faso (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Ouagadougou
  3. Burundi (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bujumbura
  4. Cameroon (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Yaoundé
  5. Central African Republic (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Bangui
  6. Chad (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), N'Djamena
  7. Comoros (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Moroni, Comoros
  8. Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Kinshasa
  9. Republic of the Congo (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Brazzaville
  10. Côte d'Ivoire (see Category, BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Yamoussoukro
  11. The Gambia (see Category BBC profile timeline, HRW, google search images news), Banjul
  12. Georgia (see Category), Tbilisi
  13. Guinea (see Category), Conakry
  14. Guinea-Bissau (see Category), Bissau
  15. Kyrgyzstan (see Category), Bishkek
  16. Madagascar (see Category), Antananarivo
  17. Malawi (see Category), Lilongwe, Blantyre, Malawi
  18. Mali (see Category), Bamako
  19. Mozambique (see Category), Maputo
  20. Myanmar (see Category), Yangon
  21. Niger (see Category); Niamey
  22. Papua New Guinea (see Category), Port Moresby
  23. Suriname (see Category), Paramaribo
  24. Tajikistan (see Category), Dushanbe
  25. Tanzania (see Category), Dar-es-Salaam
  26. Togo (see Category), Lomé
  27. Turkmenistan (see Category), Ashgabat
  28. Western Sahara (see Category), Laayoune

Translations of any appropriate articles in the French or Portuguese Wikipedia can be requested on Wikipedia:Translation into English - though some articles are actually shorter in the foreign language version. For materials not in Wikipedia, but available in electronic form, you could contact an appropriate individual at Wikipedia:Translators available.

Missing geography articles

The following articles are about important geographical regions in the non-English-speaking world.

  1. Shuozhou (in China)
  2. Zambezi Escarpment (in Zimbabwe)

Rename problems

There's yet another attempt to replace Java with a disambiguation page... See Talk:Java for the discussion - it's amazing how many people think a programming language can be even remotely comparable in notability to an island with a population of 120 million. -- Danny Yee 03:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Are you mad? So you say that programing languages are not important? Java CAN mean either the island, OR the coffee made there, OR the programming language, SO it should be a DISAMBIG page. --Rev

Lets put this in context, what would your reaction be if the main page for an an article entitled "Kentucky" was for the fried chicken, with the rifle and horse race coming in front of the State on a disambiguation page. The fact is the place came first and those other things were named for it. To give those subsequent topics equal billing, is to put the cart before the horse and to show a lack of perspective. The fact is the island and nation of Java existed first, without the island there would be no Java coffee, and with no Java coffee a group of software engineers would have had another favourite beverage to name their project.Koonan the almost civilised 00:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Colonialism

Maybe making a Wikiproject would be a good idea? Loads of work to do: Decolonization (only charts and lists, no text) Decolonization of Africa, Colonialism, New Imperialism (all the serie), Long Depression (connected to New Imperialism), etc. etc. Try to find a way to organize all the resources on colonialism so it is easy to acceed (some people couldn't find Scramble for Africa!), especially relating to the question of three main articles: colonialism, colonization and colony, which should at least be transformed into two main articles (one for European colonialism, 15th century onwards, and other for all types of colonization - Roman colonization, space colonization, etc.). This also goes, of course, for neocolonialism and postcolonialism and all developing countries' debt related issues and economical policies. Lapaz 14:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you are totally correct. I don't think I'll have time to help you on this, at least not in the foreseeable future, but I think it would make a great WikiProject. - Jmabel | Talk 17:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Please also take a look at articles involving the annexation of Hawai'i, such as Liliʻuokalani, Blount Report, Morgan Report, and the so-called Republic of Hawaiʻi set up by wealthy white pro-annexation forces. There's been a single-handed attempt to fashion out of thin air validity in the last two articles, with references to sites set up by that same wikipedia contributor! Huangdi 10:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Mahalo, the references to the http://morganreport.org site are simply in the same spirit of the UH annexation documents, who were unable to finish digitizing the Morgan Report due to a major flood that interrupted their work (they provide a link to the http://morganreport.org site as well). The report is there in its entirety, with original scanned images available for verification that the digital text is accurate. The question as to what reports are valid or not may be disputed by pro-hawaiian sovereignty activists, but my work has been specifically to counter the systemic bias that had ignored important parts of the historical record. For example, Huangdi added a sentence, "The charge by Native Hawaiians that the overthrow was illegal persisted, covertly at first for years, but then openly during the so-called "Hawaiian Renaissance". With no citation whatsoever to the "covert" charge, this kind of baseless assertion has been frankly common in the pro-sovereignty articles here for quite some time. Of course, being "covert" means of course they wouldn't be able to find any citations (how could they, if everyone was keeping it secret?) - I suppose one could also add the sentence, "The acceptance of Native Hawaiians that the overthrow was not caused by the U.S., and that Statehood was desireable persisted, openly at first for years, but then only covertly since the so-called "Hawaiian Renaissance". I would love to have a third-party look at the articles, though, and help building up proper citations. If Huangdi would like to help systematically go through the articles in question with me, I'd be more than happy to address specific issues he may have. --JereKrischel 02:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Developing World

All aspects of the "developing world", primarily in Africa, but also Asia and South America.

Requested articles

See also: Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Middle Eastern topics, Wikipedia:List of missing Oceania topics, List of conflicts in Africa

Here are some things you can do:

  • Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation - Algerian Charter supported at referendum, October 2005
  • Wikipedia:List of missing Latin American topics, Wikipedia:List of missing South Asian topics, isn't it kind of ironic that these lists are missing? Judging by the Africa and Middle East one, I think it would be useful if someone could compile these.--Dmcdevit 04:34, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Sami Naïr es:Sami Naïr french-algerian scholar, known for his concept of codevelopment --Varano 22:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • settler colonialism: the concept in general: there are at least two related meanings. In either case, it means that people from the colonizing country settle in large numbers in the land, instead of just trading, or operating plantations run by natives or slaves, or plundering militarily, or "adopting" a local governor and establishing a protectorate. Sometimes the term is restricted to settlers who have become, effectively colonizers in their own right instead of on behalf of a home country. In this last sense, it has been controversially applied to analogize Israel to South Africa. - Jmabel | Talk 06:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Current and recent events

  • Execution of Saddam Hussein -- Lack of sources other than main US and UK news outlets such as CNN or BBC. US-sources dominate the article, and this reflects in the tone. Would need an array of both independent and international sources. Sfacets 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Events and people recently or currently in the news that may need updates

Requests for expansion

  • Kintampo — archaeological site of major historical interest in Ghana. Ceramic Late Stone Age cultural complex dating around fourth millenium BP. Sometimes thought to be the first agriculturalist settlement in West Africa. Also known for its waterfalls. — mark ✎ 15:34, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • New Halfa — place in the Kassala state of Sudan where housing and work was provided by the Sudanian government for Nubians from the inundated areas around Wadi Halfa. The forced resettlement raised much controversy.
  • Yasuní National Park, in Ecuador. "Yasun may well be the single most biodiverse forest on earth," state some of the world's leading biologists, including Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson and Stuart Pimm, in a February 2005 letter to the president of Ecuador. --Carwil 21:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Media in Africa
  • Union of Forces for Change, opposition party in Togo
  • Poverty reduction, stub
  • Poverty in Africa
  • Yellow Emperor Important chinese mythological charecter. It should be as long as the article on, say, Zeus
  • 2000 Mozambique flood Very recent major humanitarian disaster with many online resources, but short page so far
  • Afghan parliamentary election, 2005 I expanded it from stub to what it is now in the past two days, but it still lacks any candidate information or political analysis (how much power will the parliament have? What is the expected political colour? How reliable will the results be? etc.)
  • African diaspora A big, big group of people with a small, small article
  • African languages Currently no more than a listing of the four major African language families and some big languages; so much more could be said about language and linguistic issues in Africa, alphabetization, language politics in multilingual countries, the impact of West-European languages, and so on, and so on...
    • Mustafaa and I have been working on this article. It is expanded considerably already, especially the part on the language families, but it is still very drafty and the issues mentioned above are not yet covered. Please check if you can help out! See also its to do list. — mark ✎ 12:39, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • African National Congress Again a poor article for such a significant organisation
  • African slave trade Doesn't even exist! (But Slave trade has some info already).
  • African Union also a CotW
  • AIDS in Africa Barely above a stub. Sacrilege really.
    • Improved, but it still needs a section on Women and HIV. Some data tables for each region sould be good too. TreveX 22:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president but little analysis of his reign in power
  • Andean States A very neglected article for an entire important region of the world. --Dmcdevit 03:17, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Benjamin Mkapa Tanzanian president could do with more detail
  • Commission for Africa - started by Tony Blair to provide new impetus for development. TreveXtalk 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Cuisine of Jamaica just a stub about a fairly well-known cuisine
  • Culture of Afghanistan
  • Culture of Iraq currently (26 Nov 2004) a pitiful stub
  • Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Nepalese government party
  • Cultural appropriation needs expansion, broadening outside Western concerns
  • Dependency theory Influential political theory within the developing world
  • Ethiopian famine Major media event. One of the few events to actually catch Western attention, renamed 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
    • Converted Ethiopian famine from redirect into article, providing a brief introduction & a list of famines since 1535. (Note: at the moment, I don't have access to information for the period 1801-1880.) -- llywrch 00:18, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
  • First Sudanese Civil War, article begun but few specifics
  • Futa Toro, on the recent changes list, Senegalese tribal group
  • Gacaca, or maybe Gacaca courts are made up of the common people to prosecute the Rwandan genocide perpetrators. Witnesses, survivors, etc. participate. see [1]. -- little stub created, help expand!--Dmcdevit 05:07, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Guinea-Bissau Civil War
  • History of Africa Article is very poor on African in the 20th Century, just an incomplete list of events. The article also needs to be reduced in size, and some child articles set up for the periods
  • History of North Africa extremely spotty coverage of some periods, 20th century section only talks about Suez canal
  • International development Huge topic, very little on this in Wikipedia anywhere
  • Ketuanan Melayu I'm sure there's a lot more to be said on this, but I don't know where to find it. If anyone could even just compile some reasonable sources, I'd be glad to do the rest of the work. Johnleemk | Talk 17:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • List of countries where language is a political issue Not a single African country in this list. There should be at least ten and most probably many more.
  • Maria Lionza should be a challenging topic to research, but is also a very interesting one.
  • Neocolonialism At least until recent times the dominant ideology.
  • Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika Redirects to National anthem of South Africa; inspiring anthem of the ANC deserves its own article explaining its origins, apartheid-era history, translations, etc., prior to its adoption as half of the anthem (all of which the Afrikaans portion of the anthem, Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, has!)
  • Nollywood Nigerian Cinema, massively popular (particularly in Africa) but only a stub
  • Pan African Parliament OK, it exists only since september 16th, but we should have an article on this...
  • Parishes of Jamaica the 14 main regions of Jamaica have only a handful of stubs
  • Politics of South Africa Poor article considering the ongoing difficulty of transition to stable, free and prosperous post apartheid state.
  • Prime Minister of Uganda needs info on the role and also some of its other office holder. TreveXtalk 00:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Salif Keita One of the best known Mali musicians has a small article
  • Sarcade The article is on an exotic little town in Somalia with 25,000 inhabitants. Would be a real challenge to expand it.
  • Sétif massacre Created but could use expansion; a major incident of Algerian history.
  • Tamasheq languages - languages of the Tuareg, stub
  • Vietnamese television could really use some attention from someone who is familiar with the topic or who can read the VTV website and other information sources that are available only in Vietnamese. I have looked on the Vietnamese Wikipedia but couldn't find any articles that looked like they might provide useful info upon translation, so it looks like we are on our own. Article should probably also be moved to Television in Vietnam. - AdelaMae (talk - contribs) 21:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Budhia Singh - The "Forest Gump of India" has recently completed a 65Km run at the age of 4. He is a hero to many of the poorest people in India.
  • Miguel Hidalgo - not sure if Mexico is in the "developing world", but this man is an absolute legend in Mexico, and his article is embarrassingly short. Batmanand | Talk 23:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for review/attention

  • Tripoli hmm... apparently Tripoli is one of those ancient cities that used to exist but its history stopped after 1911. Oh yeah, and it doesn't have any geography, culture, politics/government, economy, demographics, recreation, transportation, all that good stuff. Quite depressing. --Dmcdevit 18:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Congo Civil War Previous collaboration. Split into First Congo War and Second Congo War. Work needed on intros for both and First in particular could use some expansion. BanyanTree 20:39, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Rwandan Genocide - The French version spans several articles.
    • Páll has translated the French and created subpages and a navigation template, but the subpages could do with a copyedit, and content needs to be organized between the main and sub-pages. - BanyanTree 21:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • PS: also Initial events of the Rwandan Genocide per CSBOT template --Dmcdevit 00:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Ogaden War - could do with some work putting it into the context of both History of Somalia and History of Ethiopia
  • Politics of Uganda - a lot of copy/pasted stuff. Not very good. Tidied up but still needs some more depth, especially given recent developments re. political pluralism in Uganda. TreveXtalk 12:22, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Thomas Sankara A major African leader for many African people.
  • Arsen Kotsoyev, Ossetian writer and journalist, the article is a candidate for "Translation of the Week", but its English version needs to be reviewed by a native speaker of English. -- Slavik IVANOV 15:37, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Done (but leaving it open in case I missed something) --Nimlot 20:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  • Zimbabwe Republic Police, currently horribly pro-government POV. the wub "?/!" 10:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Seems to have been fixed adequately for a little while now. --Dpr 06:22, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Places in Afghanistan This article is HUGE! I put it up for deletion and no consencess has been reached so far making an automatic keep. Someone suggested that it be submitted to Systemic bias so it could be a kind of to do list. --Banana04131 19:47, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Alcoholism luckily only affects people in N. America. Rich Farmbrough 15:59 7 March 2006 (UTC).
  • Korean war The editorial bias in this article needs be corrected. (Postdoc 04:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)).

Featured article candidates and peer review

Art and Design

Requested articles

  • Beauty myth, a review of Western ideals of corporeal beauty, how that contrasts with those of other cultures, and effects of acculturation. -- I moved the article that was there on the Naomi Wolf book to The Beauty Myth. Beauty myth now redirects there. The blue link here should not be taken to mean that someone has started an article on the concept apart from Wolf's book. Jkelly 07:43, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

See also: Category:Art stubs, Category:Artist stubs, Category:Art organization stubs, Pages needing attention/Culture and Arts
  • Young-Ja Cho Created a brief stub on this sculptor - can't find anything else on the web with any substance though.
  • Surojana Sethabutra contemporary Thai ceramicist
  • Sybil Gibson (1908-1995) - created a page on this artist - I'll expand it when I have time, as there is plenty of info on the web. Could do with a picture of some description though if anyone with more technical know-how than myself can look at it. TicketMan - Talk - contribs 15:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Eulabee Dix (1878-1961) - Can anyone add a picture to this article? I've created a stub so far - currently a work in progress but pics etc are beyond my expertise TicketMan - Talk - contribs 17:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Requests for review/attention

  • Arts and Art need a lot of whole lot of work. There are also several open questions about categorization - see their talk pages. Clubmarx 17:48, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Chord (music) and Interval (music) have both been described as Eurocentric and are specifically biased towards European classical music. Hyacinth 19:53, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Physical attractiveness and Facial symmetry articles purport to be universal but appear to perpetuate Western aesthestic ideals of physical beauty.
  • Red squirrel, at least a section on conservation is written from an almost entirely UK-centric point of view. --Eleassar my talk 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Harp, Lyre, Flute, Drum and Musical Notation are all eurocentric and need to be split into a general part with a globalized view and special articles on special European forms of the topic. This is probably also true for other music-related articles (I am currently checking this). Nannus 18:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


Women's studies

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Female oriented subjects - Feminism, Women authors, professions with high proportion of women etc

Requested articles

Requests for expansion

Requests for review/attention

  • Systematic silencing of so called "problematic" points of view in articles on or in articles related to Women's studies, gender and other feminism-related articles. Prominent feminist whistleblowers, feminist dissidents, scientists and other non-feminist points of view are being censored when they oppose the 'gender' feminist "party line". Much pandering to politically correct but blatantly gynocentric propaganda points but rarely is balanced non-sexist research common in these articles. 128.111.95.245 02:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Oriana Fallaci prominent Italian journalist and author. Little though I like her remarks on contemporary Islam, she certainly deserves more of an article. We mostly have a bibliography, quotations, and links. -- Jmabel 22:59, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • Category:Modernist women writers

Non-English language literature

Non-English language literature (particularly writers whose work is unavailable or not widely available in English). See also List of African writers.

Requested articles

These include all of the nonexistent links listed under "Literature by country or language"

Requests for expansion

Satisfactory

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Linguistics

Many linguistic articles are written exclusively or largely from an Indo-European point of view. In some cases this becomes apparent in the examples provided (Onomatopoeia seems an irredeemable example), while others treat grammatical categories and linguistic terms as if they pertain to English or other well-known Indo-European languages only. This is something that needs to be remedied in an encyclopedia of international scope.

Requested articles

  • Tense (linguistics). A general article to cover temporal constructions in language is needed.
See Grammatical tense/multilingual sources for a draft.

Requests for expansion

(The most common request is to correct a limited (usually Indo-European) point of view.)

A-J

  • Affix. Uses English examples only (!!?). Needs work.
    • Now also includes a Native American language. Still needs work. Johnny Au (talk) 21:59, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Augmentative. Needs more work since there is only one heading, no English examples, and needs more examples from non-Indo-European languages. Currently a stub. Johnny Au 19:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Closed-class word. English-based. Cross-linguistically, there are interesting differences here. In many African languages for example, the class of adjectives is a closed class. On a sidenote, cognitive linguistic views of reasons for the distinction between closed and open classes (e.g. Talmy 2000:413, Langacker) are also worth mentioning.
This is very interesting. I would love to see some references of how adj's are in the closed class. While the open-closed distinction forms the basis for Talmy's model of form (grammatical) vs content, I am not sure where Langacker refers to this. Certainly it is not very prominent in his 1987/1991 texts. mukerjee (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)