Hi Joseph, That would be fine for established articles, but in my experience most new bios that get speedy deleted within a day or two of creation don't ever get an infobox added.
Regards Jonathan Cardy > On 13 Apr 2015, at 13:56, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org> wrote: > >> On 04/12/2015 03:38 PM, Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada wrote: >> 2015-04-12 21:18 GMT+02:00 WereSpielChequers >> <werespielchequ...@gmail.com <mailto:werespielchequ...@gmail.com>>: >> >> Firstly looking at gender ratios of deleted and undeleted bios to >> see if there is an overall gender skew. >> >> I share here this page of deleted and recreated pages >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Deletionism/2011 just in case >> someone wants to explore that. > > I have python code that's pretty good at guessing the gender of > biographical subjects, but originally it scraped HTML given a list of > names. If someone had some code for retrieving the wikitext and > determining that it is a biography (neither of which would be hard) it > would be very easy to determine. Here's some pseudocode: > > ``` > #!/usr/bin/python2.7 > > def is_bio(article): > '''TRUE if article is not '{{hsdis}}' and has '{{infobox person}}''' > > for title in titles: > males = females = unknowns = 0 > if title_exists: > article = get_wiki(title) > if is_bio(article): > gender = guess_gender(article) > print('%s: %s' %(title, gender)) > if gender = male: > males += 1 > else gender = female > females += 1 > else: > unknowns += 1 > print('males = %s; females = %s; unknowns = %s' > %(males, females , unknowns)) > ``` > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
