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 are incentivised to remove markers of their gender from their online presence to keep a lower profile to avoid the trolls and bigots. There were also a number who clearly appeared to be a certain ethnicity based on their staff photo, but where there were no reliable sources as to that ethnicity. I also had a one person ask for their article to be deleted. [If this is of interest I can send details to you directly, but I will not post their details to a public forum and ask you refrain from this also.] I look forward to reading your experimental design taking these factors into account. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 06:43, Mackenzie Lemieux <mackenzie.lemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
