Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

For example, whether or not a notable town in in the global south, for instance, has an article is unlikely to affect the quality of life of its residents as much as whether infrastructure businesses in that town have access to credit. If global finance policy makers believe the typical positions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

"As biases go, omitting notable subjects in the global south doesn't have the deleterious real-world consequences that reenforcing erroneous economic hegemony does." How so? I don't want to go into politics topics, but with what we see recently we clearly see the danger of thinking "less" of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

I don't think so, but this has interested me. The problem is how to look at the data in such a way that it is meaningful. I tried to break it down a bit and I have presented about the differences in women's occupations across language wikis and gender here:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely: http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented-is-the-mena-region-in-wikipedia/ As biases go, omitting notable subjects in the global south doesn't have the deleterious real-world consequences that reenforcing erroneous economic hegemony does. On Mon, Sep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

Good day, This is not related to gender bias, but an observation I made from reading this paper. Table 1 shows the different percentage of overlap between different languistic versions of Wikipedia with the English Wikipedia. Do anybody know if there are studies or reports focussed on that? For

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

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"? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

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