Greg, 31/08/19 05:17:
Thanks, Federico. Do you mean that examining gender
bias is more
relevant to google than wikipedia? Or necessary before any work can be
done here?
I'm saying that any gender bias of citations on Wikipedia articles will
compound a number of factors, including the underlying bias in the
literature, bias in how it's presented in discovery tools, etc. As long
as we don't know the size of such underlying biases, I suspect an
attempt to measure Wikipedia's specific contribution would be futile.
It's also a standard research practice to break down a problem into
smaller parts, easier to manage. Google Scholar or similar tools are
already large enough. Millions of Wikipedia authors and all their
background and methods are however significantly larger.
Federico