Interesting, thanks for the links! We also now have mix-n-match and Charles Matthews has matched the complete Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, With autolist I could probably look at those male-female ratios per occupation. Might be interesting. I don't know how to get at the "deleted & recreated" data though
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Joseph Reagle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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