Hi Joseph,
That would be fine for established articles, but in my experience most new bios that get speedy deleted within a day or two of creation don't ever get an infobox added.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
> On 13 Apr 2015, at 13:56, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:
>
>> On 04/12/2015 03:38 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote:
>> 2015-04-12 21:18 GMT+02:00 WereSpielChequers
>> <werespielchequers@gmail.com <mailto:werespielchequers@gmail.com>>:
>>
>> Firstly looking at gender ratios of deleted and undeleted bios to
>> see if there is an overall gender skew.
>>
>> I share here this page of deleted and recreated pages
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Deletionism/2011 just in case
>> someone wants to explore that.
>
> I have python code that's pretty good at guessing the gender of
> biographical subjects, but originally it scraped HTML given a list of
> names. If someone had some code for retrieving the wikitext and
> determining that it is a biography (neither of which would be hard) it
> would be very easy to determine. Here's some pseudocode:
>
> ```
> #!/usr/bin/python2.7
>
> def is_bio(article):
> '''TRUE if article is not '{{hsdis}}' and has '{{infobox person}}'''
>
> for title in titles:
> males = females = unknowns = 0
> if title_exists:
> article = get_wiki(title)
> if is_bio(article):
> gender = guess_gender(article)
> print('%s: %s' %(title, gender))
> if gender = male:
> males += 1
> else gender = female
> females += 1
> else:
> unknowns += 1
> print('males = %s; females = %s; unknowns = %s'
> %(males, females , unknowns))
> ```
>
>
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