Hi Jane, great investigation.
I like this idea of looking at the gender gap by-profession, and seeing if
it is closing at any rate by sampling it over time. In fact, I put in a
project for the "inspire campaign" to automate recording these statistics
over time for all professions. It'd be great to have your endorsement, and
if the project is funded we can compare how painters fair against other
professions.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index…
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone, I have been checking how we are doing on
closing the
gendergap on biographies of women artists for a while. Part of the problem
is collecting the data, and Wikidata is a great help. Unfortunately there
are still lots of women artists with Wikidata items without any statements
at all, but since this is also true for male artists, looking at the stats
is useful. What I did was to collect data for all female artists and all
male artist and came up with percentages for painters versus various
matched data bases in Mix-n-Match.
Thanks to our push on Art & Feminism, the score is better (12.5%) on
Wikimedia projects than for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(10.1%). The ODNB is currently the only database that is completely
matched. The other databases are still being matched, but still, it's
interesting to see how we currently stand with those. Here are the scores:
Wikidata painters - 12.5%: 45016 male, 6430 female
RKD - 11.4%: 21809 male, 2795 female
United List of Artist Names - 8.6%: 32993 male, 3091 female
BBC Your Paintings - 7.7%: 6535 male, 545 female
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 10.1%: 49419 male, 5581 female
http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/
These stats were gathered this morning using Autolist:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html
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