User:Helpful Dave/National bias research

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

Sample of 50 pages on 1^st Aug 2004

Method: Special:Randompage.

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.

Conclusion:

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

Sample of 50 pages on 23^rd Oct 2004

Method: as above.

Findings:

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

Conclusion:

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

Sample of 50 pages on 8^th Jan 2005

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

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.

Conclusion:

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