An interesting paper. We know that a sizable proportion of articles about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their representative.
I just looked at the gender of all articles created by this sock involved in undisclosed paid editing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bri/COIbox61#Jeremy112233
Of the 104 BLPs they wrote 87 (84%) were for males and 17 (16%) were for females. The current proportions may partly reflect that males are more interested / willing to buying articles about themselves than females.
James
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Eduardo Testart etestart@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
One of the members from Wikimedia Chile, independently from the chapter and before he became a member, was directly involved in the development of the following article, that adress the gender inequality (or gender bias), and which gives the title to the email:
*https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-00... https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4*
It was published almost a year and half ago (March 1, 2016), and from an internal and informal conversation that occurred yesterday in the Chapter, he shared the link to the complete study https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4 (in English). Worth to mention is that he presented preliminary results https://www.slideshare.net/carnby/wmcl2015-investigando-usando-wikipedia (in Spanish) about it in the Wikimedia Chile Conference https://wikimedia.cl/Conferencia_Wikimedia_Chile_2015 from 2015.
I read the complete article yesterday, and found it extremely interesting, so I took the liberty to share it here, in case you haven’t had the chance to read it yet.
Also, the article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License :)
Cheers!
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