No pushback. .. yet. .. ;) Just a few justified complaints when i made mistakes.
I only categorised women...leaving un-gender-categorised articles as 'men' and then deduced the percentage of women from that. I figured that the chances of pushback were higher if I 'touched' lots of articles and cats about men ;) Those edits would be seen as less useful as in many cases there are very few women with articles in male dominated sports. E.g. Rugby, where the female leagues dont attract usable levels of press coverage, making notability difficult, and limiting the number of people likely to care enough to write a bio. I did have a complaint that I wasnt categorising men as well, and i think i promised to do that, but havent done so. On Jul 30, 2012 8:15 AM, "Andrew Gray" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 July 2012 22:53, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> And I don't think the cases where it is > >> unclear or a matter of privacy (a vanishingly small number) should > >> preclude the obvious cases being done. It doesn't seem quite right > >> that the potential for arguments over edge cases and how to handle > >> them sensitively, would preclude being able to search by gender. > > > > When used in category intersections, its really useful info for gender > > studies. > > Indeed. I would love to see a chart of gender-in-Wikipedia compared to > birth years, for example, over the last few centuries. Even in the > simplest cases (pure coverage numbers) it's an interesting tool for > understanding our coverage and how that reflects systemic biases. > > I'm interested to hear that you categorised for a large set - did it > work smoothly, labour-intensiveness aside, and was there any pushback? > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
