Speaking as the editor in third place with 25%, I'd like to say that my
count is only so high because I created articles based on the [[Dictionary
of New Zealand Biography]], a source which has already be professionally
balanced for gender and ethnicity.
From my point of view, one of the significant barriers
to this kind of work
is the consensus not to categorise all people by gender,
religion and race
(see [[Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and
sexuality]]), alas there are good reasons for that consensus.
cheers
stuart
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Klein,Max <kleinm(a)oclc.org> wrote:
Hi Laura,
I very much like the topic and question of your research. Bravo.
The result that pops out at me I is 23.5% of gendered-content by
super-users is Woman-related. The sample size of 0.4% of editors is small,
too small to draw conclusions about the super users themselves, but the
sample of articles, I think starts to approach being representative. Well
at least it is in line with what I found, which was that looking at
Biography articles only, 18% of English Wikipedia is about Women [1].
One way to scale up this kind of sentiment analysis would be Mechanical
Turk[2] , to "automate" categorizing pages into gender. That would take
some money, but maybe there's a research grant for it. With a statiscally
significant sample, it seems like a result that would be popular in the
media. One could also compare the the likelihood to write gendered articles
of the super-users versus others.
The conclusion is quite punchy - finding people to write about women is
not as important as convincing people who currently write, to write about
women.
I would be very intrigued to collaborate and help on this research. Do
you have ideas about what you want "future directions" to look like?
[1]
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=2877
[2]
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Maximilian Klein
Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC
+17074787023
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content creators in perpetuating gender bias
Thank you very much again for this insightful article on Wikipedia,
gender and content creation!! We are very happy we could post it on our
blog and are looking forward to responses.
Sincerely,
Stine Eckert
Stine Eckert
Ph.D. Candidate
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
2100N Knight Hall
www.stineeckert.com
@stineeckert
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*Subject:* [Wiki-research-l] The role of English Wikipedia's top content
creators in perpetuating gender bias
http://wikinewsreporter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-role-of-english-wikipe…
some research I did recently about the role of English Wikipedia's top
content creators in terms of perpetuating gender bias.
Any feedback appreciated.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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