I recently completed a project writing en.wiki articles for all female
and indigenous professors in my country, .nz.
I now write pronounless biographies, because there were a significant
number whose gender wasn't apparent from their public persona. My
guess is that women and LGBTIA+ minorities are incentivised to remove
markers of their gender from their online presence to keep a lower
profile to avoid the trolls and bigots.
There were also a number who clearly appeared to be a certain
ethnicity based on their staff photo, but where there were no reliable
sources as to that ethnicity.
I also had a one person ask for their article to be deleted. [If this
is of interest I can send details to you directly, but I will not post
their details to a public forum and ask you refrain from this also.]
I look forward to reading your experimental design taking these
factors into account.
cheers
stuart
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...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 06:43, 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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