I have spent quite a bit of time at new page patrol over the years. My
suspicion is that many if not most of the people who create articles on newly
signed pop stars and actors are from their management agency rather than fans,
especially if they seem too early in their career to have fans.
Dear h,
I think your male gaze hypothesis is very interesting. It's of course
possible to report on the number of female politicians or such using
Wikipedia/Wikidata, but comparisons to other indices are, well,
problematic. World Forum Gender Gap index reports a ratio of politicians
(female
I believe it would be easier to stick to the group of celebrities, so for
example do a study of articles on films, especially romance categories that
would usually have noteworthy subjects for both the lead man and the lead
woman. It would be interesting to see if the bio coverage of both the male
Speaking of questions that open with an agenda, have you tried asking
the fundraising team?
On 12 January 2015 at 20:07, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of fundraising far over budget, did the question about an endowment
perpetuity make it on to the last donor survey? If so,
The upcoming Wikimedia Research showcase
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Research_and_Data/Showcase
(Wednesday January 14, 11.30 PT) will host two guest speakers: Felipe Ortega
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GlimmerPhoenix (University of Madrid) and
Benjamin Mako Hill
I’m sharing a proposal that Reid Priedhorsky and his collaborators at Los
Alamos National Laboratory recently submitted to the Wikimedia Analytics Team
aimed at producing privacy-preserving geo-aggregates of Wikipedia pageview data
dumps and making them available to the public and the research
