Hi Jane, On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It is my expectation that Wikidata will make such translation tasks > trivial and building interfaces to add content through translations is a > type of contribution that can attract casual new users without seeming too > threatening (in terms of potentially being reverted). > True, with the caveat that finding missing articles across languages is not trivial. We have a first version of an algorithm ready for being tested that can recommend translation tasks across languages. You can read more about it here. [1] The Language team has developed a tool called ContentTranslation, currently as a Beta feature.[2] Whether the algortihm and the tool help the movement address the gender gap and the broader demographic disparity problems is an interesting question to look into once the two are in production and more widely accessible. Best, Leila [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation > > Jane > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Jason Radford <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the >> question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close >> the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly >> radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so >> few current and new female editors that, even if every current and new >> active, female editor stayed active for ten years, we wouldn't close the >> gap. >> >> I've posted the results >> <https://civilsociology.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/closing-the-gender-gap-on-wikipedia-results-from-some-simulations/> >> to my blog. It's password protected so I can share the results and get >> feedback without making it pubic. You can access them by using the >> password "wikipedia". I'm hoping some of you with experience researching >> gender representation on Wikipedia would be able to catch any errors. >> >> Thanks! >> Jason >> -- >> Jason Radford >> Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Chicago >> Visiting Researcher, Lazer Lab, Northeastern University >> *Connect*: LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsradford>, Twitter >> <http://www.twitter.com/jsradford>, University of Chicago >> <http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Ejsradford/> >> *Play Games for Science at Volunteer Science >> <http://www.volunteerscience.com>* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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