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Wikipedia Citations: Reproducible Citation Extraction from Multilingual Wikipedia [PDF]
arXivWikipedia is an essential component of the open science ecosystem, yet it is poorly integrated with academic open science initiatives. Wikipedia Citations is a project that focuses on extracting and releasing comprehensive datasets of citations from Wikipedia.
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Prioritizing future evidence needs for marine and freshwater mammal conservation action
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.To improve conservation practice, decisions should be informed by the available evidence on the effectiveness of conservation actions. Here, we review the comprehensiveness of this evidence base for marine and freshwater mammals. We assess the taxonomic and geographic coverage of the evidence base, identify biases and suggest priorities for future ...
E. Hordern +5 more
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Exploring Wikipedia Gender Diversity Over Time $\unicode{x2013}$ The Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD) [PDF]
arXivThe Wikipedia editors' community has been actively pursuing the intent of achieving gender equality. To that end, it is important to explore the historical evolution of underlying gender disparities in Wikipedia articles. This paper presents the Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD), a tool designed to enable the interaction with gender distribution data ...
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Wikipedias: Collaborative web-based encyclopedias as complex networks [PDF]
, 2006 Vinko Zlatić +3 more
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Gender and reactions to speeches in German parliamentary debates
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Are nonverbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female members of parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of ...
Elliott Ash +2 more
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Biases in elections with well‐informed voters: Evidence from public voting for football awards
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 7, Page 1551-1571, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Objectives How much does group membership influence voting behavior? This article adds to existing work by considering a novel context where voting is public and voters are well‐informed. Methods The article analyzes public votes in a prominent award for the best football player in the world.
Nolan Kopkin, Andrew Roberts
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Peers, equals, and jurors: New data and methods on legal equality in Leveller thought
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract We consider the Levellers' conception of equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth−century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word “meanings.” We focus on ...
Melissa Schwartzberg, Arthur Spirling
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Social Science Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 7, Page 1602-1618, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Objective We examine how a sample of English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S. adults define the terms pro‐life/pro‐vida and pro‐choice/pro‐elección and explore whether definitions differ by language and/or ethnicity. Methods We asked a sample of 1504 English‐ and Spanish‐speaking U.S.
Megan Solon +6 more
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Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia of life
Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 2010 AbstractIn his 2003 essay E O Wilson outlined his vision for an “encyclopaedia of life” comprising “an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth”, each page containing “the scientific name of the species, a pictorial or genomic presentation of the primary type specimen on which its name is based, and a summary of its diagnostic traits ...
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