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'''Wikipedia biographies favor men''' was a news article [http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wikipedia-biographies-favor-men published by Examiner.com] on January 12, 2011, written by [[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]].

==Methodology==
A few notes on the methodology of the biographical gender research:

* MZMcBride pulled a randomized selection of 500 Wikipedia biographies of living persons (BLPs) for Kohs, at his request.  McBride used the following code:
::SELECT
::page_title
::FROM page
::JOIN categorylinks
::ON cl_from = page_id
::WHERE cl_to = 'Living_people'
::AND page_is_redirect = 0
::AND page_namespace = 0
::AND page_random > RAND()
::ORDER BY page_random
::LIMIT 500;

*Kohs then took the first 200 names from the list and pasted them into a spreadsheet.  He then marked with an "M" or an "F" all of the unambiguous names that easily identify to a gender -- e.g., "Mike" and "Mohamed" are male, "Carolyn" and "Edith" are female.  He left blank all of those that could have any reasonable level of ambiguity... and he was conservative -- he left blank names like "Sandy" and "Casey".  Many non-Western names, he had no idea and thus left blank ("Suriya" and "Nyjer", for example).

*Then, Kohs manually looked up on Wikipedia each of the blank entries.  All but one were fairly easy to identify their gender -- Kohs noted that the majority (or the near majority) either played rugby or soccer, or were an Olympic athlete.

Studies like these are stuff that any of the 50+ staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation should be turning out on a daily basis, but Kohs does them for free.

==Data set==

Here is the list of 200 names:

Renee_Sands    F

Otis_Hudson    M

Mamuka_Gorgodze    M

Fikre_Selassie_Wogderess    M

Douglas_Rae_(businessman)    M

Erik_Ellington    M

Martin_Bryant    M

Edgar_J._Malepeai    M

Robert_Gavron,_Baron_Gavron    M

Shirley_D._Bowler    F

Steve_Bryles    M

Mike_Garcia_(NL_pitcher)    M

Kyle_Freadrich    M

Venod_Sharma    M

Steven_Hill_(model)    M

Dagmara_Dominczyk    F

Thomas_Gill_(footballer)    M

George_Phang    M

József_Tabaka    M

Clara_Morgane    F

Warren_Spannaus    M

General_Khodaidad    M

Hans-Jürgen_Ripp    M

Pete_Smith_(announcer)    M

Brett_Hauer    M

Albertino_Essers    M

Kerry_Brothers,_Jr.    M

Georgi_Petrov_(footballer_born_1974)    M

António_Soares_Carneiro    M

Jonílson_Clovis_Nascimento_Breves    M

Nikola_Đuričko    M

Rasmus_Fleischer    M

Larry_Playfair    M

Crispian_Mills    M

Guy_Mariano    M

Teruhisa_Moriyama    M

Jihad_Azour    M

Claire_Gibault    F

Martha_Wash    F

Fay_Kleinman    F

Greg_Gall    M

Francesco_Lorenzon    M

Christopher_Hall_(sculptor)    M

Juan_Toya    M

Wilfried_Van_Moer    M

Michael_Saward    M

Yahiya_Doumbia    M

William_B._Rudman    M

George_Wuerch    M

Brian_Orser    M

Wellington_Sandoval    M

George_Moose    M

Ana_Kokkinos    F

Christian_Fortune    M

Travis_Smith_(artist)    M

Dax_Riggs    M

Julian_Burnside    M

Boss_Bailey    M

Aharon_Megged    M

John_Sinisa    M

Irvine_Arditti    M

Jim_Kacian    M

Mona-Jeanette_Berntsen    F

Adrian_Falub    M

Martín_Lasarte    M

Casey_Fossum    M

Struther_Arnott    M

Finn_Jebsen    M

Edith_Hunkeler    F

Clive_Baker    M

Ed_Annunziata    M

John_McLaughlin_(musician)    M

Pervin_Shroff    F

Masako_Jō    F

Calvin_Jones_(baseball)    M

Mike_Saenz    M

Sarah_Jaffe    F

Alexander_Bachmanov    M

Guy_Allison    M

Ababu_Namwamba    M

Luke_Arscott    M

Konstantinos_Thanos    M

Monica_Mæland    F

Dave_Faulkner_(musician)    M

Khalil_Ibrahim_Al-Zayani    M

David_Ackert    M

František_Dřížďal    M

Ronald_L._Ellis    M

Janet-Laine_Green    F

Megumi_Sato_(athlete)    F

Gakuya_Horii    M

Camilla_Henemark    F

Kyle_Snyder    M

Arsen_Fadzayev    M

Carolyn_Waldo    F

Joan_Lippincott    F

Mohamed_Refaie    M

Sultan_Hashim_Ahmad_al-Tai    M

Lucía_Etxebarría    F

Luke_Williams_(wrestler)    M

Patricia_Gaffney    F

Abdul_Rahman_Al-Athel    M

Kwon_Tae-Man    M

Mark_Trombino    M

Kiyomi_Niwata    F

Slavko_Lukić    M

Azar_Karadas    M

Amanda_Schull    F

Adele_Scheele    F

Christian_Giantomassi    M

Evangelista_Santos    M

Bobby_Hutcherson    M

Sandy_Collins_(tennis)    F

Steve_Witiuk    M

Janusz_Waluś    M

Lati_Grobman    F

Bob_Atha    M

Fredrik_Larsson    M

Mike_McCall    M

Eugenio_Colombo    M

Renos_Doweiya    M

Conor_Gill    M

Stefan_Uteß    M

Theodore_Long    M

Tony_Howorth    M

Abel_Masuero    M

Anísio_Abraão_David    M

Cedric_Payne    M

Pierre_Aubé    M

Johnny_Chester    M

Martijn_van_der_Laan    M

Dick_Dreissigacker    M

Sudsy_Monchik    M

Pran    M

Sandra_A._Gregory    F

Enkel_Dauti    M

Jerry_Kenneth_"Ken"_Swilling    M

David_Southwick    M

Suriya_Bala_Kerisnan_Thevar    M

Norman_N._Li    M

Bryan_Wenzel    M

Danny_Manning    M

Kay_Tse    F

Brad_Fraser    M

Peter_Tomasi    M

Laurie_Levenson    F

Joe_Labero    M

Alexander_Korolyuk    M

Drew_Anderson_(outfielder)    M

Robert_"Mack"_McCormick    M

Junie_Donlavey    M

Silvan_Zurbriggen    M

François_Cluzet    M

Joe_Henderson_(runner)    M

Mike_Symon    M

Tomás_Teresen    M

Patrick_Côté_(fighter)    M

Plumb_(singer)    F

Monica_Roşu    F

Sam_Daly    M

Mark_L._Polansky    M

Frederick_Sumaye    M

Steve_Rizzono    M

Roy_Frumkes    M

Charles_M._Blow    M

Margaret_Rudin    F

Matthieu_Bochu    M

Peter_Iwei    M

Adam_Greenberg_(baseball)    M

Marvin_Frederick    M

Natalie_Spilger    F

Maurice_Dalé    M

Sachiko_Chijimatsu    F

Ko_Gi-Hyun    F

Peter_Howitt    M

Ivan_Stojmenovic    M

Mark_Shulman    M

Karloff_Lagarde,_Jr.    M

Vasilie_Simiocenco    M

Jill_Colucci    F

Glen_Osborne    M

Ingrid_Hadler    F

Andrei_Khodykin    M

Danilo_Tomić    M

Kevin_James_(actor)    M

Domingo_Liotta    M

Jesús_Pérez_(boxer)    M

Craig_Krampf    M

José_Varacka    M

Gregg_Bingham    M

Nyjer_Morgan    M

Jérémy_Denquin    M

Alan_Milburn    M

Farhad_Reza    M

Cameron_Donald    M

Paddy_Carr    M

Bud_Day    M

Richard_Aylard    M

Tara_Buck    F

Eric_Mackenzie_(Australian_rules_footballer)    M