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Thanks for the article link, Joseph. I haven't yet finished the
article, but I do have a couple of preliminary questions:<br>
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* Do you know what the ratio of male to female contributors is at
Encyclopedia Britannica?<br>
* Why the emphasis on female biographies? It seems like a weak
indicator of gender bias (as reflected by the WikiSym study). Do we
really know that women are significantly more likely to write about
women than men are? If so, how much more likely?<br>
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Ryan Kaldari<br>
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On 9/2/11 6:54 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb">http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Abstract: Is there a
bias in the against women's representation in Wikipedia
biographies? Thousands of biographical subjects, from six
sources, are compared against the English-language Wikipedia and
the online Encyclopædia Britannica with respect to coverage,
gender representation, and article length. We conclude that
Wikipedia provides better coverage and longer articles, that
Wikipedia typically has more articles on women than Britannica
in absolute terms, but Wikipedia articles on women are more
likely to be missing than articles on men relative to
Britannica. For both reference works, article length did not
consistently differ by gender.</p>
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