User:Helpful Dave/National bias research

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I stole User:Secretlondon's idea to take a random sample of articles and note which countries they related to (User:Secretlondon/Survey).

Contents

[edit] Sample of 50 pages on 1st Aug 2004

Method: Special:Randompage.

[edit] Findings:

  • 17 articles: international
  • 9 articles: US
  • 6 articles: UK
  • 2 articles: France, Japan, Italy, Europe in general
  • 1 article: Hong Kong, Australia, Yemen, Israel, Russia, Germany, Iceland, Cuba, Bosnia, Muslim world in general.

[edit] Conclusion:

We can be glad that US bias seems to be waning.

[edit] Sample of 50 pages on 23rd Oct 2004

Method: as above.

[edit] Findings:

  • 22 articles: USA
  • 10 articles: international
  • 6 articles: UK
  • 2 articles: France, Germany, Japan, Spain
  • 1 article: Australia, Canada, Iraq, Sweden

[edit] Conclusion:

This casts some doubt on the claim that US bias is waning. Gdr 23:25, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

[edit] Sample of 50 pages on 8th Jan 2005

Method: as above. N.B. disambiguation pages are only counted if they are all about one country, or all international.

[edit] Findings:

  • 12 articles: USA
  • 10 articles: UK
  • 9 articles: international
  • 4 articles: Canada
  • 2 articles: France, Russia/USSR
  • 1 article: The Netherlands, Germany, Turkey/Phrygia, Nigeria, Italy, New Zealand/Niue, Jamaica, Egypt, Norway, Romania, South Africa.

[edit] Conclusion:

Still US bias. Some UK bias too. Chamaeleon 23:50, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)