On 04/12/2015 03:38 PM, Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada wrote:
> 2015-04-12 21:18 GMT+02:00 WereSpielChequers
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>
> Firstly looking at gender ratios of deleted and undeleted bios to
> see if there is an overall gender skew.
>
> I share here this page of deleted and recreated pages
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Deletionism/2011 just in case
> someone wants to explore that.
I have python code that's pretty good at guessing the gender of
biographical subjects, but originally it scraped HTML given a list of
names. If someone had some code for retrieving the wikitext and
determining that it is a biography (neither of which would be hard) it
would be very easy to determine. Here's some pseudocode:
```
#!/usr/bin/python2.7
def is_bio(article):
'''TRUE if article is not '{{hsdis}}' and has '{{infobox person}}'''
for title in titles:
males = females = unknowns = 0
if title_exists:
article = get_wiki(title)
if is_bio(article):
gender = guess_gender(article)
print('%s: %s' %(title, gender))
if gender = male:
males += 1
else gender = female
females += 1
else:
unknowns += 1
print('males = %s; females = %s; unknowns = %s'
%(males, females , unknowns))
```
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