And, indeed, I see your point. For historical/older information, it is
indeed difficult to write about women's sports because these topics were
not widely covered on paper (newspapers, books) but for current teams,
at least for factual information, there is a large quantity of
information online.
There has been a healthy amount of discussion recently about
project-level surveys.
Is anyone working on a general user survey? An annual version of this
would be valuable:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_User_Survey
Likewise, an annual report on opt-in data from user preferences.
SJ
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Great work, Jane!
Kerry
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:55 PM, David Monniaux wrote:
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> I'm not a sports connoisseur, but if I go to a typical library, there is
> a range of books on popular *male* sports. I can find biographies of
> famous players, histories of major clubs, etc. A quick Amazon search for
> instance shows me
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:55 AM, David Monniaux wrote:
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> I do not find such books on female sports. In fact, if I look for a book
> on the French women's soccer team on Amazon, I find something...
> extracted from Wikipedia! (Recall that football is the most popular
> sport in France...)
>
> In
Your example of sports is very interesting. I agree that above a certain
level, any team etc. is inherently notable. There is still, however, the
question of available sources,
I'm not a sports connoisseur, but if I go to a typical library, there is
a range of books on popular *male* sports. I can
As one of the English Wikipedia's top content creators [1], let me
weigh in here with a shameless plug that I would like to present my
work at Wikimania this year and am hoping for sponsorship from the WMF
in order to do that.[2]
I agree heartily with Laura that
One of the things that really needs
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, David Monniaux wrote:
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> This could help identify to which extent the problem is created by the
> Wikipedia authors, as opposed to simply reflecting the situation of
> current scholarly literature. That is, I would like to distinguish the
> effects of the Wikiped
I would be interested in the following:
As we all know, the rules on sourcing and against original research on
Wikipedia make it difficult to write about topics that are not widely
covered; furthermore, regarding academic topics, the rules encourage
seeking scholarly sources. Thus, it is difficult
Stuart A. Yeates, 18/02/2014 01:48:
What would be great would be a set survey of the top 5000 (i.e. the
group that Laura is already working with) where they were asked basic
questions about the fields they edited in and their perception of gender
bias, then half way through they were presented wi
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