“Marking” gender in Australian biographies: English Wikipedia

Comparing the introductions of each article in the Australian biographies dataset, using the tf-idf metric to reveal the most distinctive words in the introductions for each gender grouping.

Wikipedia biographies of Australians tend to explicitly mark gender when subjects are female, trans, non-binary, or intersex—especially in sport, where terms like “women’s” are common. Biographies across all genders focus heavily on sport and entertainment, though trans and non-binary entries more often highlight activism and social issues.

Read more in the report.