Thanks for your thoughtful comments here. What I was meant but probably didn't clearly state was that it might be useful for us to reflect as wiki researchers on the extent to which we cite the work of female academics. We are quite good at criticising others, I find, but less on reflecting on our own practice. No need to comment publicly - just some food for thought perhaps :)
Best, Heather.
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On 29 Feb 2016, at 01:41, Sam Katz smkatz@gmail.com wrote:
Let me comment on the original question. The correct citation is typically the oldest one known to the researcher, not the most popular.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I am truly happy that Wikidata is its own master. When a Wikipedia has certain policies it is welcome to it. As long as they do not use Wikidata to improve the quality of its content [1] and by the same token improve the data at Wikidata, I am not interested what a Wikipedia does. Thanks, GerardM
[1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2016/01/wikipedia-lowest-hanging-fruit-f...
On 28 February 2016 at 20:31, Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote: Wikidata appears to allow original research and the inference of gender from the name or photo of the subject. It will be a cold day in hell before en.wiki allows this, see [[WP:RS]] and .[[WP:OR]].
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote: But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to check the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As more people become aware of how to make such checks, I think we start to see a cleanup of categories and (I hope) a better categorization system starting to form that is more in line with Wikidata property class trees.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote: Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes, principally VIAF. See Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump for example for a discussion of an instance of this.
cheers stuart
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from GND. As far as I am aware that never happened. So its assertion is wrong. Thanks, GerardM
> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote: > > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote: >> Hoi, >> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata. > > I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in wikidata at http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excelle... has the sitaution moved on? > > cheers > stuart > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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