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