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
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Mackenzie Lemieux
<mackenzie.lemieux(a)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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Mackenzie Lemieux
mackenzie.lemieux(a)gmail.com
cell: 416-806-0041
220 Gilmour Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6P 3B4
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