Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before she got a wikipedia page

Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by cafard on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:03PM (#18123510)

Right now, there are something around 20 article on the front page of Wikipedia, about half of them connected to recent news or anniversaries (birthdays, historic events, etc.) There are about 5.6 million articles in Wikipedia, it says. So how far would a Wikipedia page about Donna Strickland have contributed to her fame among those of us who are not physicists? And would the physicists among us have needed Wikipedia to learn about her?

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by wil_wheat_on on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:09PM (#18123565)

the other two winners, male, had pages https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1047098079097380864, there's a broader argument about bias here

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by yorwba on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:38PM (#18123857)

I think the strongest bias in this case is favoring advisors over the students who do the work, even if they get first authorship.

For example, the Alex of AlexNet [1] fame would be Alex Krizhevsky, if he were actually famous. He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but his advisor Geoffrey Hinton does (and is famous for the AlexNet breakthrough).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by booleandilemma on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:39PM (#18123864)

How can an encyclopedia that anyone can edit be biased?

Anyone could have added her page, no one did, until now.

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by cpeterso on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:00PM (#18124078)

Someone created a wiki page for her back in May, but it was deleted because a Wikipedia editor decided she wasn't "notable". Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but it still has the bias of the most recent editor.

https://twitter.com/resolvingdust/status/1047135142978801664

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by tda on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#18124156)

Actually she had a page, but it was deleted. And then someone recreated the page, and it was rejected in review. QED

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by dbcooper71 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:08PM (#18124152)

The editors didn’t think she was notable enough. This is an editing problem not a submission problem.

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Re:Donna Strickland won her Nobel prize in Physics before sh... by basic1 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:22PM (#18123687)

I'd be curious who made those two or if it was themselves.

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