Sarah,
Glad you like it - I must say I did think of you when I saw all those
English Wikipedia links. I think you wrote a lot of them, and many others
were probably directly inspired by you in some way or other. I know you
also had a big hand in making them "matchable" on Wikidata.
I realize I made a mistake in my email and dropped a leading digit while
talking about the numbers in the RKD database - they have around 200,000
male artists vs 60,000 female artists. Another interesting factoid I can
state is that Wikipedia is all about the "long tail" and overlap between
the language wikis is minimal - only about 7% of all males in the set of
Wikidata items have links in all language wikis, and the same goes for the
females (7.39% vs 7.21% to be exact), Once you get past the big-ticket
names, the long tail gets longer: more than half of the items have one
interwikilink or less. For the women the tail is even longer: males 55.39%
and females 60.15%.
Jane
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is excellent Jane - and shows that the potential
for creating
community (wikiprojects) can really help to improve content and experience
for all involved.
Also proud as a contributor about women artists =)
Thanks for sharing this!
-Sarah
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and
wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have
been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing
to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD database
of artists, which Magnus has kindly placed in Mix-n-Match. Just using the
matches I made and the automatic matches, it is now possible to see some
interesting data on how artists are represented across wikis.
The RKDartists database metadata was downloaded this year and contains
94,944 males and 60,282 females, or roughly 24% females, of which most were
born after 1850. I have said before that part of the gendergap in the arts
is caused by copyright issues (copyright-gap), and since most notable women
artists were born after 1850, it would always appear that women are
significantly less represented than men. The good news is that Wikimedia
projects are much more welcoming to female artists than museum collections,
where the percentage of women tends to be less than 3%. The data I have now
shows that most Wikimedia projects have a percentage of women artist
biographies that are well above 5%, or more than double what museums have
on show.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Females_in_matched_RKDartists.jpg
I gathered the data using autolist and various combinations of the
queries below
1) claim[21:6581072] and claim[650]
2) claim[650] and link[enwiki]
I assume similar results could be seen for the Joconde database, which I
may do later.
Best,
Jane
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