The controversial memoGoogle's Ideological Echo Chamber was published on August 5, 2017. Due to the since-fired James Damore's referencing of certain Wikipedia pages, those pages are becoming hot spots of edit warring and massive restructuring.
In the 10-page memo, Danmore wrote that "personality differences" between men and women such as women having a "lower stress tolerance" are the reason that there are fewer women than men in leadership and engineering roles at the company. In making his conclusions, Danmore cited the Wikipedia pagesNeuroticism,Sex differences in psychology,Empathizing–systemizing theory, and others.
Motherboardreported on the uptick in edits and page views on Neuroticism in particular, saying that "the article has received more than six times the amount of pageviews as it does on average—topping out at 15,574 pageviews yesterday. Between yesterday and now, the page has been revised 27 times, compared to its average of 4.2 edits per month." Discussions on the talk page have been occurring rapidly, with the size of the page almost becoming six times larger in August of 2017, and the page itself received 157 edits in August, compared to two in July.
Seth Stevens-Davidowitz is a former Google data scientist who, asBusiness Insiderreported on August 6, 2017, thinks he has found what it takes to become successful (the mark of being successful being, having a Wikipedia page). Stevens believes that at long last he has found the answer. Grow up near a big college town that is diverse and somewhat urban.
In order to perform this study, Stevens took 150,000 articles about Americans (limited tobaby boomers). He took their county of birth, date of birth, occupation, and gender. Stevens found that "30% of people found success through arts and entertainment, 29% through sports, 9% through politics, and 3% through science or academia." He also learnt that geography plays a large role in Wikipedia page prevalence (WPP). Baby boomers born in California had a one in 1,209 rate of WPP, compared to West Virginia, with a WPP of one in 4,496. At a more local level, Stevens found a WPP of one in 748 inSuffolk County. Growing up near "large, semi-urban college towns" placed the counties containingMadison, Wisconsin;Berkeley, California;Chapel Hill, North Carolina; andIthaca, New York (home toUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison;University of California, Berkeley;UNC Chapel Hill; andCornell respectively) in the top 3% of counties ranked by WPP. Stevens wrote "The greater the percentage of foreign-born residents in an area, the higher the proportion of children born there who go on to notable success," The effect was very prominent, so prominent, in fact that among two college towns, both of around the same size, "the one with more immigrants will produce more prominent Americans." Stevens also writes that "Perhaps this effort to zoom in on the places where hundreds of thousands of the most famous Americans were born can give us some initial strategies, encouraging immigration, subsidizing universities, and supporting the arts, among them."
This story was itchin for some diffs: The edits appear to be[1] and[2]—simple vandalism, unless I'm missing some later action, the kind of run-of-the-mill IP vandalism deleted on enwp every day (after minutes or, at most, a few hours), just as it was in the Korean articles. I'd be interested in the full story, perhaps for a future Signpost?czar04:49, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]fined 4 million won ($3,564) on September 1, 2017, for changing the Wikipedia pages of Moon Jae-in and Lee Jae-myung to say that they were North Korean
