Hoi,
I blogged about the issue of sex ratios on Wikidata [1]. The experiment I
did with Harvard alumni was to get some idea about the number of humans who
were not yet known as human. I added a substantial number of them to have
an item for each entry in the category on the English Wikipedia. I assume
that as a group they are relatively well covered; they are ivy league and
some of the best and brightest studied there. When you look at the sex
ratio for the Harvard educated, you will find that it is worse than for the
general population. I suppose it is an indication of the amount of items
that still need to be identified as human.
Thanks,
Gerard
[1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-its-sex-ratio.html
On 21 April 2014 00:53, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Gerard Meijssen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > To be blunt, Wikidata gains the quantitative quality I am looking for
> when only male and female
> > is added where applicable. Transgender issues with respect are edge
> cases.
>
> Transgender issues are primarily raised because they're vitally
> important for people today, but they're not the only issues.
>
> Far more numerically superior are the issues of people writing under
> other-gendered pseudonyms; that's a systemic problem, in the GND data
> for example. "Lord Charles Albert" "Florian Wellesley" and "Currer
> Bell" were only outed as pseudonyms of Charlotte Brontë once she
> achieved a certain level of fame. Modern analysis suggests that there
> are probably thousands if not tens of thousands of other writers who
> never achieved that level of fame and never had their pseudonyms
> revealed. GND and similar library data commonly base their gender data
> on nothing more than the apparent gender of the name on the cover page
> (librarianship practice, unlike archival practise, takes such things
> at face value). To take that librarianship practise out of context and
> assert that that those thousands or tens of thousands of authors were
> men (rather than just publishing under male or ambiguous names) isn't
> going to get you sued, but that doesn't mean it's not the
> white-washing of generations of women writers.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
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