(I know this thread was from many months ago. I've been reading recently about
related issues, and remembered this conversation)
Mackenzie,
That's a great question. Accusations of systemic bias in the deletion of
biographies is one of the most common criticisms of Wikipedia, and it would be
Hi Mackenie,
You may be correct in either or both of your hypotheses, but you might also
want to check out two other related ones.
1 Some academic institutions may have an element of misogyny in their HR
policies, leading to such situations as an academic becoming notable for
their work to the
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 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
