I recently completed a project writing en.wiki articles for all female
and indigenous professors in my country, .nz.
I now write pronounless biographies, because there were a significant
number whose gender wasn't apparent from their public persona. My
guess is that women and LGBTIA+ minorities
Right now, the "researcher" right process is sort of in limbo while we
figure out a good way to assign that user group.
I think the best way to manage this is to have a community vetting process
for allowing researchers to access the user right. Regretfully, we don't
have one right now[1]. I
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, July 15, at
9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
Wikipedia is one of the most important online resources for health
information. This has been especially highlighted during the Covid-19
pandemic: since the beginning of the year more than
Hi Mackenzie,
Thanks for sharing more about your research here.
Do you intend to request access to the deleted logs of specific
Wikipedia language editions or all Wikipedias?
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM Mackenzie Lemieux
Dear Wiki Community,
My name is Mackenzie Lemieux and I am a neuroscience researcher at the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies and I am interested in exploring biases on
Wikipedia.
My research hypothesis is that gender or ethnicity mediate the rate of
flagging and deletion of pages for women
Dear All,
I am happy to announce that the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
has officially started a new Formal Collaboration [1] with the University
of Turin (Italy) on Understanding Readers' Engagement with Images in
Wikipedia.
Rossano Schifanella, Assistant Professor in Computer
