Hi Mackenzie,
Thanks for sharing more about your research here.
Do you intend to request access to the deleted logs of specific Wikipedia language editions or all Wikipedias?
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Mackenzie Lemieux mackenzie.lemieux@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wiki Community,
My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and I am interested in exploring biases on Wikipedia.
My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of flagging and deletion of pages for women in STEM. I hope to retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the past n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity of a large sample.
It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log, but to actually see the page that was deleted we need to be members of one of these Wikipedia user groups: Administrators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators, Oversighters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight, Researchers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers, Checkusers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser.
Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need?
Warmly, Mackenzie Lemieux
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