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Interesting!<br><br>I don't know if you know about the categories that exist on some Wikipedias, for instance German and Swedish Wikipedia: namely the categories for articles about men and women respectively. On Swedish you can find the super-category here:<br><br>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Personer_efter_k%C3%B6n<br><br>Män = Men<br>Kvinnor = Women<br><br>Those numbers suggest that for each article about a woman on Swedish Wikipedia, there are 4,29 about men. That is a little bit better than the German Wikipedia (1 woman, 5,85 men).<br><br>As you can see from the interwiki links, some other languages also have these categories. English Wikipedia in fact have an impressive 1,65 articles about *women* for every article about men. All *38* of the women article towers of the 23 men articles :-) Time to fill in those categories?<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Lennart<br><br>Lennart Guldbrandsson, <br>Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se<small><br>Tfn: 031 - 12 50 48
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</small><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:39:30 -0700<br>From: rkaldari@wikimedia.org<br>To: joseph.2011@reagle.org; gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Subject: Re: [Gendergap] fyi: Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica<br><br>
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Thanks for the article link, Joseph. I haven't yet finished the
article, but I do have a couple of preliminary questions:<br>
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* Do you know what the ratio of male to female contributors is at
Encyclopedia Britannica?<br>
* Why the emphasis on female biographies? It seems like a weak
indicator of gender bias (as reflected by the WikiSym study). Do we
really know that women are significantly more likely to write about
women than men are? If so, how much more likely?<br>
<br>
Ryan Kaldari<br>
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On 9/2/11 6:54 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
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<p style="text-indent:0px"><a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb" target="_blank">http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/gender-bias-in-wp-eb</a></p>
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<p style="text-indent:0px">Abstract: Is there a
bias in the against women's representation in Wikipedia
biographies? Thousands of biographical subjects, from six
sources, are compared against the English-language Wikipedia and
the online Encyclopædia Britannica with respect to coverage,
gender representation, and article length. We conclude that
Wikipedia provides better coverage and longer articles, that
Wikipedia typically has more articles on women than Britannica
in absolute terms, but Wikipedia articles on women are more
likely to be missing than articles on men relative to
Britannica. For both reference works, article length did not
consistently differ by gender.</p>
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