maybe a note to leigh themadattar User:Thelmadatter? who was mentioned in a blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/13/wiki-learning-edit-a-thon-mexico/
good reason to go to wikimania On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know what's going on with the Spanish Wikipedia? The last two > articles I created, of Laxmi_Aggarwal and Maha Al Muneef--women who have > been awarded the International Women of Courage Award--have been nominated > for speedy deletion as not being encyclopedic. See my talk page > <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario_discusi%C3%B3n:Neotarf>. My > article on the award itself <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujer_coraje> > remains untouched, but you can see the only articles that remain as blue > links are of Hispanic women. > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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