Thanks for the article link, Joseph. I haven't yet finished the article,
but I do have a couple of preliminary questions:
* Do you know what the ratio of male to female contributors is at
Encyclopedia Britannica?
* Why the emphasis on female biographies? It seems like a weak indicator
of gender bias (as reflected by the WikiSym study). Do we really know
that women are significantly more likely to write about women than men
are? If so, how much more likely?
Ryan Kaldari
On 9/2/11 6:54 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb
Abstract: Is there a bias in the against women's representation in
Wikipedia biographies? Thousands of biographical subjects, from six
sources, are compared against the English-language Wikipedia and the
online Encyclopædia Britannica with respect to coverage, gender
representation, and article length. We conclude that Wikipedia
provides better coverage and longer articles, that Wikipedia typically
has more articles on women than Britannica in absolute terms, but
Wikipedia articles on women are more likely to be missing than
articles on men relative to Britannica. For both reference works,
article length did not consistently differ by gender.
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