Fabian, I talked with Amanda Menking about this once, about a year ago. But no, I don't believe there has been any academic work on the issue (another consequence of our over-focus on enwiki).
Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw presented a paper on redirects at WikiSym last year, and their enwiki corpus & methodology <http://communitydata.cc/wiki-redirects/> could help you or others extend that line of research into gendered languages: http://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-consider_the_redirect.pdf Hope that helps! - Jonathan On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Flöck, Fabian <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example > articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as the > name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)? > Could also be about any other article titles that can take male/female > forms. > > It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather > Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example: > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect. > > Cheers, > Fabian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Community Research Lead Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> [email protected]
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