Hey Ed,
As said, I'm looking specifically at that content which has made its
way into Wikidata. Thanks, though :)
On 9 April 2015 at 03:42, Ed H. Chi <chi(a)acm.org> wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> Here is one paper on mapping topic coverage in Wikipedia from 2009:
>
> Kittur, A., Chi, E. H., and Suh, B. 2009. What's in Wikipedia?: Mapping
> Topics and Conflict using Socially Annotated Category Structure. In
> Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in
> Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New
> York, NY, 1509-1512.
> ACM Link (24% acceptance rate)
>
> --Ed (on my tablet)
>
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>> From: Flöck, Fabian <Fabian.Floeck(a)gesis.org>
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>> Interesting, thanks Mark!
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>> - Fabian
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>> On 07.04.2015, at 16:38, Mark J.Nelson
>> <mjn@anadrome.org<mailto:mjn@anadrome.org>> wrote:
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>> Flöck, Fabian
<Fabian.Floeck@gesis.org<mailto:Fabian.Floeck@gesis.org>>
>> writes:
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>> Does anyone know about a study that looks at how often for example
>> articles about a profession use the male instead of the female form as
>> the name (female form doesn't exist or is just a redirect)?
>>
>> It would probably not be a so much of an issue for English, but rather
>> Spanish, German, Russian etc. Concrete example:
>>
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor exists in German, but
>>
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professorin is just a redirect.
>>
>> One thing to be careful of in such a study (though I would also like to
>> see it!) is tha the politics and preferences in this area vary widely
>> across languages, and sometimes within a language, so a purely
>> data-driven study has to be careful about its assumptions and
>> generalizations.
>>
>> Below a long-ish discussion of Greek that you may skip if not interested
>> (it ended up longer-winded than I had expected):
>>
>> For example in Greek it is very profession-specific whether the trend is
>> towards using a slashed form of both genders, or towards convergence on
>> a single form that applies to both genders (sometimes with atypical
>> morphology). Sometimes it depends on the specific word form and
>> historical usage. In fields that historically had both men and women,
>> both forms are very well established and tend to persist, e.g. a male
>> teacher is a δάσκαλος and a female one is a δασκάλα. But in fields that
>> were typically so male-dominated that only the masculine version has
>> been in common use, there's disagreement over whether it's more
>> progressive to "revive" a feminine form, or to generalize the
masculine
>> form to cover both genders. For example a female president would
>> universally be called by the historically masculine form πρόεδρος,
>> but with a feminine article (i.e. πρόεδρος can now be either a masculine
>> or feminine noun, depending on context, even though it's morphologically
>> irregular as a feminine noun). There is in Byzantine Greek a feminine
>> analog, προέδρισσα (referring to a different position), but it isn't
>> used today outside humorous contexts (roughly where you might use
>> "Presidentess" in English). The same applies for a number of other
more
>> common professions, but for some it's more disputed which form should be
>> used (for President there isn't any usage variance).
>>
>> In short it's complex, so I hope any data set is careful about what it's
>> counting as data, and why. :)
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>> -Mark
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