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 in STEM. I hope to retrospectively analyze Wikipedia's deletion history, harvest the biographical articles about scientists that have been created over the past n years and then confirm the gender and ethnicity of a large sample. It appears that we can identify deleted pages with Wikipedia's deletion log <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log>, but to actually see the page that was deleted we need to be members of one of these Wikipedia user groups: Administrators <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators>, Oversighters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight>, Researchers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers>, Checkusers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser>. Does anyone have advice on how to obtain researcher status or is there anyone willing to collaborate who has access to the data we need? Warmly, Mackenzie Lemieux -- Mackenzie Lemieux mackenzie.lemi...@gmail.com cell: 416-806-0041 220 Gilmour Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6P 3B4 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
