The August 2019 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2019/August 22 recent publications about Wikipedia's gender gaps and potential gender biases, summarized and reviewed in the latest edition of our monthly research newsletter.
In this issue: 1 Female and nonwhite US sociologists less likely to have Wikipedia articles than scholars of similar citation impact2 "Mapping and Bridging the Gender Gap: An Ethnographic Study of Indian Wikipedians and Their Motivations to Contribute"3 "Investigating the Gender Pronoun Gap in Wikipedia"4 Safety and women editors on Wikipedia5 "Hacking History: Redressing Gender Inequities on Wikipedia Through an Editathon"6 "'(Weitergeleitet von Journalistin)': The Gendered Presentation of Professions on Wikipedia"7 "Striking result": No bias against contributions by female editors in quality assessment8 Other recent publications8.1 "Unexpected forms of bias" on Wikipedia favor female over male CEOs8.2 English Wikipedia biased against conservative and female topics, at least when compared to US magazines8.3 "Gender and deletion on Wikipedia"8.4 "Deleted gender wars"8.5 "Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator"8.6 Special issue of the "Nordic journal for information science and dissemination of culture"8.7 "Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women's Ethos in Wikipedia and Blogs"8.8 "Cyberfeminism on Wikipedia: Visibility and deliberation in feminist Wikiprojects"8.9 "Women and Wikipedia. Diversifying Editors and Enhancing Content through Library Edit-a-Thons"8.10 "Similar Gaps, Different Origins? Women Readers and Editors at Greek Wikipedia"8.11 "Writing Women in Mathematics into Wikipedia"8.12 "How do students trust Wikipedia? An examination across genders"8.13 "Breaking the glass ceiling on Wikipedia"8.14 Using Wikipedia for "Analyzing Gender Stereotyping in Bollywood Movies"8.15 Contrary to expectations, "no evidence of discrimination of female users based on their usernames"8.16 Some informative non-research overview publications *** 23 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Masssly and Tilman Bayer --- Wikimedia Research Newsletterhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/* Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/WikiResearch/ * Receive this newsletter by mail: Research-newsletter Mailing List - Wikimedia * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
