Good day, This is not related to gender bias, but an observation I made from reading this paper. Table 1 shows the different percentage of overlap between different languistic versions of Wikipedia with the English Wikipedia. Do anybody know if there are studies or reports focussed on that?
For example, I notice that the Wikipedia with the less overlap from the above-mentioned table is the Arabic Wikipedia. To me, it seems to indicate another sort of bias on the English Wikipedia and other "Western" language Wikipedias in not necessarily including biographies from those parts of the world. Or maybe there is another "glass ceiling" not based on gender, meaning that somebody from the Middle East for instance needs to be more notable in average to be included on the English Wikipedia comparatively of somebody in North America or Europe. Do we have any analysis of that? Is that a question that is brought up in reflexions about bias? Thank you, JP On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:55 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The article was discussing the proportion of articles about specific > gender and possible reasons why this situation exists. What I > mentioned was simply one among many potential explanation. > > James > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Eduardo Testart <etest...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi again, > > > > I think the article is not related to paid editing, if you wish to > discuss > > that subject, you should probably open another thread. > > > > It would be nice if the discussion and comments can be kept on topic :) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > El sept. 22, 2017 3:49 PM, "James Heilman" <jmh...@gmail.com> escribió: > > > > How do we know? Those who work extensively in this topic area and are > > good at picking up paid editing make an educated guess. There are well > > known patterns that represent paid editing. We could likely build a > > tool that could look at all BLPs and give a numerical value to the > > percentage that are most likely written for pay. If you look at a > > random group of new BLPs at WP:NPP you will also get a decent idea. > > > > James > > > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Andy Mabbett > > <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > >> On 22 September 2017 at 18:24, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> We know that a sizable proportion of articles > >>> about people are paid for by the individual themselves or their > >>> representative. > >> > >> We do? How? And what size is that "sizable proportion"? > >> > >> -- > >> Andy Mabbett > >> @pigsonthewing > >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Jean-Philippe Béland [image: Wikimedia Canada] Vice-président — Wikimédia Canada <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=fr>, chapitre national soutenant Wikipédia Vice president — Wikimedia Canada <https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=en>, national chapter supporting Wikipedia 535 avenue Viger Est, Montréal (Québec) H2L 2P3,jpbel...@wikimedia.ca _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
