On 04/13/2015 01:18 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Actually I think it would be useful to measure all existing female bios > vs all existing male bios for the proportion of those which have been > previously deleted and recreated. I have a theory that it is much more > difficult to create bios of females in whatever category due to the > systemic academic bias aginst including women's biographies in the list > of "reliable sources" mostly used in Wikipedia. I would be especially > interested in comparison of male-female ration of bios in established > dictionaries of biography and how these compare to Wikipedia, and of > those, how many such bios were previously deleted on Wikipedia and > recreated.
Hi Jane, I've done comparative work on coverage bias in biographies between WP and Britannica [1]. I've also shared my data [2] with an author of [3] who is extending that analysis to include structural, lexical, and visibility bias. I think addressing deletion and recreation wouldn't be too hard... [1]: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777/631 [2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/06/gender/results [3]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.06307v1.pdf _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
