Thank you, Zach, Hasive, Tanweer and others :)
I would like to thank the entire Odia community and also Asaf for playing a
major role in this initiative :)
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*Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "*
Community Advocate, Access To Knowledge Program
Centre for Internet and Society
Phone: +91
Hi all,
One of the members from Wikimedia Chile, independently from the chapter and
before he became a member, was directly involved in the development of the
following article, that adress the gender inequality (or gender bias), and
which gives the title to the email:
*https://epjdatascience.s
An interesting paper. We know that a sizable proportion of articles
about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their
representative.
I just looked at the gender of all articles created by this sock
involved in undisclosed paid editing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bri/COIbox61#
Yes very interesting, if only to illustrate how difficult it is to get this
information reliably. It is also interesting to see those charts dating to
the days before Wikidata. One problem with using these stats is that pretty
much everything is a moving target. Yes there is a larger gap at the loc
On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman wrote:
> We know that a sizable proportion of articles
> about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their
> representative.
We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"?
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.or
How do we know? Those who work extensively in this topic area and are
good at picking up paid editing make an educated guess. There are well
known patterns that represent paid editing. We could likely build a
tool that could look at all BLPs and give a numerical value to the
percentage that are mos
Hi again,
I think the article is not related to paid editing, if you wish to discuss
that subject, you should probably open another thread.
It would be nice if the discussion and comments can be kept on topic :)
Cheers,
El sept. 22, 2017 3:49 PM, "James Heilman" escribió:
How do we know? Th
The article was discussing the proportion of articles about specific
gender and possible reasons why this situation exists. What I
mentioned was simply one among many potential explanation.
James
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Eduardo Testart wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I think the article is not
