On 9 June 2014 23:34, Lennart Guldbrandsson l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com wrote:
Some language versions of Wikipedia do have gender categorization, such as Swedish and German Wikipedia. (The English categories exist but are not used very much.) Here's a link to the Swedish ones:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:M%C3%A4n (men) presently 132 211 articles
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Kvinnor (women) presently 32 693 articles
This gives a rough proportion of 1 female for every 4 male. article subject. If my memory serves me, the German Wikipedia numbers are a bit higher (perhaps 1 in 6).
The categorization was on Swedish Wikipedia a conscious decision to try and find out where we stood.
Thanks - I knew about the German categories but not the Swedish ones.
Interestingly, Wikidata reports:
32661 female on svwiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20a...
130801 male on svwiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20a...
Wikidata gives 20% female, the Wikipedia categories give 21%, but they're in reasonably good alignment - almost perfectly matching for women, and about 1500 men not in Wikidata. I'll have a look at getting these mapped across tonight :-)