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
Thanks for sharing your research, Joseph!
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.orgwrote:
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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?
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
A Commons user began deleting the category Female politicians and it was
brought up on the Village Pump.
The user even asked what the point of the category was, which entertains
me.
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
Interesting!
I don't know if you know about the categories that exist on some Wikipedias,
for instance German and Swedish Wikipedia: namely the categories for articles
about men and women respectively. On Swedish you can find the super-category
here:
Several women, including on WikiProject Feminism on the English
Wikipedia, have recently expressed concern about the number of
photographs of women's body parts that Wikimedia hosts, particularly
regarding the issue of permission.
It's far from clear in many cases that the women have given
Several women, including on WikiProject Feminism on the English
Wikipedia, have recently expressed concern about the number of
photographs of women's body parts that Wikimedia hosts, particularly
regarding the issue of permission.
It's far from clear in many cases that the women have given
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:00, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The matter is discussed at Commons:Photographs of identifiable people
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people
Fred
Thanks for the link, Fred.
It seems that page
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:33, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
I also think (after working in the fashion and photography private sector
for almost 10 years before non-profits) that model releases are as important
as OTRS copyright releases when it comes to sexual content on
If someone sees an image of themself which they want removed, they can
1. email OTRS.
whether the request is received by a volunteer and/or anonymous person
shouldn't matter. The OTRS policies do matter, esp. the privacy
policy.
For added privacy, they should email oversight-en-wp or the
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:22 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to throw this back in a positive direction. The task of
deleting poor quality photographs (and metadata/provenance/paperwork
is part of quality) is made much easier if we have good quality
photographs of
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