Well, a "local bias" would push the total coverage in a certain language,
as evidences by high nl.wp coverage for RKD but not for ULAN. But how would
that affect the gender bias? No matter how popular RKDartists are on a
Wikipedia, unbiased coverage should always put them on the line in my
plots. However, only the almost-complete Wikipedias come near that line.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:27 AM Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Magnus,
That is very cool! I also noticed the same trend, which indeed does at
first glance appear to be a male bias in the language wikis. However,
drilling down into the actual data it's really not so bad. What you
actually see is a strong bias from the ULAN for artists who have been
active in the US for whatever reason (artworks in US museum, exhibition, or
public art). The RKD has a similar strong bias for artists who have been
active in the Northern & Southern Netherlands and adjoining countries (nl,
fr + de). We should offset this by looking at other databases, and also
looking at the same cross-wiki data for all biographies with
occupation=artist.
Jane
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Magnus Manske <
magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:48 AM Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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