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