Could you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by the gender balance of citations?
Are you talking about: * proportion of male vs female authors of the source material used as citations in arbitrary articles> * the quality/quantity of citations in biography articles of men vs women? * the quality/quantity of citations in articles that are gendered by some other criteria (e.g. reader interest, romantic comedy vs action film)? Kerry -----Original Message----- From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2019 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Wiki-research-l] gender balance of wikipedia citations Greetings! I was looking for information about the gender balance of Wikipedia citations and no one I've asked knows of any work on this topic. Do you? I think this is an important question. Here's what I've learned so far: Wikipedia citations are currently in the form of text strings. There is also an initiative to place citations in an annotated structured repository (wikicite). I do not know the current status of wikicite or if/when this could be used for this inquiry--either to examine all, or a sensible subset of the citations. My perspective is that understanding the gender balance is necessary and urgent. The balance could be better, the same, or worse than the citation balances we already know, and the scale of the effect is quite large. Is this a line of inquiry that the wikimedia/wikicite community is interested in pursuing? If so, what is the best way to get started? Does the WMF have the resources and interest to look into this matter inhouse? Thanks for your thoughts. Greg _______________________________________________ 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
