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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