Hi Kerry, Those are all very interesting ways to look at this. I was thinking mostly along the lines of your first bullet point, but I'd be interested in research in any of those areas.
Thanks, Greg On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:00 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. gender balance of wikipedia citations (Greg) > 2. Re: gender balance of wikipedia citations (Kerry Raymond) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:19:18 -0700 > From: Greg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] gender balance of wikipedia citations > Message-ID: > < > caoo9dnty+odo5oqrmzeg1nze-kynylwntd6acheytbyegk8...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:53:45 +1000 > From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> > To: "'Research into Wikimedia content and communities'" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] gender balance of wikipedia citations > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 168, Issue 11 > ************************************************ > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
