Kerry Raymond, 29/08/19 01:26:
So I think a specific tag to encourage the expansion
of "Bloggs et al"
citations to full author listings might work.
But it's easier to fix it yourself, using the citation bot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UCB
Greg, 30/08/19 07:48:
If the Wikipedia
community is not studying its biases and designing tools and strategies for
addressing them, it is not reflecting the world, but lagging behind it.
However, going back to Kerry:
In some ways, I think a better solution might be to
try to get Google
scholar interested in the issue of gender.
I'm not aware of studies of gender bias in Google Scholar search results
themselves, yet we'd really need such basic information before going
into specifics of how the research is consumed and redistributed. There
is a mention of gender in
https://oadoi.org/10.1017/S104909651800094
which states
Moreover, because a GS pro-
file is a public signal, it can have a disproportionate effect on
opinions because a person seeing it knows that others also see
it (Chwe 2016).
Which seems to me an argument very similar to yours on Wikipedia.
Federico