On 9 June 2014 23:34, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Some language versions of Wikipedia do have gender
categorization, such as
Swedish and German Wikipedia. (The English categories exist but are not used
very much.) Here's a link to the Swedish ones:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:M%C3%A4n (men)
presently 132 211 articles
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Kvinnor (women)
presently 32 693 articles
This gives a rough proportion of 1 female for every 4 male. article subject.
If my memory serves me, the German Wikipedia numbers are a bit higher
(perhaps 1 in 6).
The categorization was on Swedish Wikipedia a conscious decision to try and
find out where we stood.
Thanks - I knew about the German categories but not the Swedish ones.
Interestingly, Wikidata reports:
32661 female on svwiki:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20…
130801 male on svwiki:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20…
Wikidata gives 20% female, the Wikipedia categories give 21%, but
they're in reasonably good alignment - almost perfectly matching for
women, and about 1500 men not in Wikidata. I'll have a look at getting
these mapped across tonight :-)
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