“In addition to really supporting those efforts to include articles about missing entities, we also need to have a really good conversation about biases at a structural level on Wikipedia,” says Ford.
Ford cites her colleague Dr Kirsten Thorpe’s work, which suggests the structure of the site makes it harder to do First Nations coverage.
“We found this in our research as well: it’s not just a matter of adding. There needs to be a recognition that at some level, the way that Wikipedia is structured is favouring a very particular, Eurocentric, view of place,” says Ford.