Hi all,
I am compiling some stats regarding the work done on the Art & Feminism
edit-a-thons for my local chapter and while checking the state of the wikis
regarding female artists I noticed that there are huge local differences
per language wiki regarding "who is notable". One of the things I love
about Mix-and-Match is the way you can easily check the sitelinks per wiki.
You can also download the data with autolist to see which biographies are
popular across different languages. I noticed that in the case of women
this seems to be way different than for men. Women artists are more likely
to be notable in one or two languages only, possibly because they travel
less, making their art known more locally than otherwise - who knows?
In any case, here is something to chew on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_…
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists
that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
Jane
