Wikipedia's systemic biases against Indigenous Australians

[Ognistysztorm]

By chance I've come across the following two:

https://wikihistories.github.io/reports/2024.html

This year, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive those representations. Examining 35,000 articles about Australian places and interviewing volunteer editors, we found that English Wikipedia reflects an anthropocentric and neo-colonial image of Australia as a place. Download the full report, or scroll down to read an html version suitable for your smaller screen device.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aboriginal/com ... ia_racism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

In summary, there was an edit correcting claims about Aboriginals being hunter gatherers, when as you know agriculture was present along with several other developments. Not only was this edit warred twice by racists, Wikipedia sided with them by banning the person with the corrective edits.

[Archer]

Yeesh.

we found that English Wikipedia reflects an anthropocentric and neo-colonial image of Australia as a place

In other words, Wikipedia was written by people and Australia is mostly white. Of course we're not intended to write this off as a tautology, but to act as though white Australians are somehow problematic for contributing what they know. It's the typical shame routine.

In summary, there was an edit correcting claims about Aboriginals being hunter gatherers, when as you know agriculture was present along with several other developments. Not only was this edit warred twice by racists, Wikipedia sided with them by banning the person with the corrective edits.

How is it possible to interpret hunter gatherer as an insult without believing hunter gatherers were inferior? What, then, do they think of the hunter gatherer tribes that exist today? Since when is "hunter gatherer" a slur in the first place? I'm pretty sure Europeans were hunter gatherers at one point too. Edit: Ah, that was from the Aboriginal subreddit. The point still stands I suppose. They should argue their case properly, and not take after the example set by that Wikihistories paper and the like.