Thanks, Isaac and Federico. These notes and links are very helpful--and
will require some time to process. As for how many years I have to work on
this, I'm retired! In truth, I keep hoping that someone on this list will
express interest in working on these matters. The questions are all very
Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts, Jane. I did not know this
was happening--I'm hardly an expert, so that's not surprising, and yet it's
still very troubling to hear. I'm not sure what you mean by setting up a
Wikiproject. Do you mean of ways for how to study this gap--i.e., the
Kerry, thanks for kicking this off. One update on our end:
There is a general alignment between a few different teams/departments
in WMF that this is an important problem to support chekcusers with in
a better way than what we do today.
I gave a presentation in Wikimania about the research on
Nemo,
Can you please elaborate on what use of language, and whose use of
language, you are criticizing? It is not clear from your email what
"jargon" you refer to, and why you feel it is inappropriate.
Jonathan
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:59 AM Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> Please everyone
Regarding data, I have not been a part of these projects but I think that I
can help a bit with working links:
* The (I believe) original dataset can also be found here:
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/datasets/archive/public-datasets/all/mwrefs/
* A newer version of this dataset was produced that
Greg, 22/08/19 06:19:
I do not know the current status of wikicite or if/when this
could be used for this inquiry--either to examine all, or a sensible subset
of the citations.
If I see correctly, you still did not receive an answer on the data
available.
It's true that the Figshare item
Greg,
Thanks for worrying. This is a known problem and yes, Wikipedia contributes
to the Gendergap in citations and no, it's not an easy fix, since it is the
fault of systemic bias in academia. So fewer women are head author on
scientific publications, and it is generally only the head author that
Please everyone avoid using jargon specific to the English Wikipedia on
this cross-language and cross-wiki mailing list.
Aaron Halfaker, 23/08/19 17:36:
I think embeddings[1] would be a nice way to create a signature.
There is some discussion of acceptable user fingerprinting (presumably
to
