maybe a note to leigh themadattar User:Thelmadatter?

who was mentioned in a blog
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/13/wiki-learning-edit-a-thon-mexico/

good reason to go to wikimania

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Neotarf <neotarf@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know what's going on with the Spanish Wikipedia?  The last two articles I created, of Laxmi_Aggarwal and Maha Al Muneef--women who have been awarded the International Women of Courage Award--have been nominated for speedy deletion as not being encyclopedic. See my talk page.  My article on the award itself remains untouched, but you can see the only articles that remain as blue links are of Hispanic women.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting, thanks for the links! We also now have mix-n-match and Charles Matthews has matched the complete Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, With autolist I could probably look at those male-female ratios per occupation. Might be interesting. I don't know how to get at the "deleted & recreated" data though

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:

On 04/13/2015 01:18 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
> Actually I think it would be useful to measure all existing female bios
> vs all existing male bios for the proportion of those which have been
> previously deleted and recreated. I have a theory that it is much more
> difficult to create bios of females in whatever category due to the
> systemic academic bias aginst including women's biographies in the list
> of "reliable sources" mostly used in Wikipedia. I would be especially
> interested in comparison of male-female ration of bios in established
> dictionaries of biography and how these compare to Wikipedia, and of
> those, how many such bios were previously deleted on Wikipedia and
> recreated.

Hi Jane, I've done comparative work on coverage bias in biographies
between WP and Britannica [1]. I've also shared my data [2] with an
author of [3] who is extending that  analysis to include structural,
lexical, and visibility bias. I think addressing deletion and recreation
wouldn't be too hard...

[1]: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/777/631
[2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/06/gender/results
[3]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.06307v1.pdf

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