Hi all, I ran a few quick updates on Max's numbers today. As of 9/6/14: * WIkidata has ~2080k items marked as people * Of these, ~1893k have a "gender" property (91%) (Magnus's games are doing an amazing job at filling out these numbers, by the way - http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=213 ) Very quick and dirty statistics follow - note that since we have 9% undefined, the stats may change a bit as time goes on :-) * The gender breakdown across all these people is approximately 1603k male, 290k female - 84.7% male and 15.3% female. * enwiki is 15.5% female; arwiki 14.2%; dewiki 14.9% female; frwiki 15.2%; eswiki 15.9%; jawiki 18.2%; hiwiki 18.7%; zhwiki 20.1% * It's interesting to note that these numbers mostly seem a point or two better than the numbers Max got a month ago, which probably represents better data-logging rather than change in the underlying content * There are still very few items with a gender property other than "male" or "female" - perhaps 100-200 overall - but I suspect this number will significantly increase as we deal with the remaining items. Andrew.

From: andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:44:17 +0100 To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata Part III On 9 June 2014 20:21, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: "Item" here is a single Wikidata entry: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320 which may correspond to one Wikipedia article, one hundred Wikipedia articles, etc - but all on the same topic. (Potentially it may correspond to *no* Wikipedia articles - it's not strictly required, and in any case the source article may be deleted - but there's unlikely to be a statistically large number of these just now) The new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was about 10% female when published in 2004, though this was skewed by a limitation to include all entries from the original, including a lot of - to modern eyes - very non-notable men. http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/images/stories/articles/baigent2005.pdf (It's since crept up to ~11%) Max has done some numbers based on gender assigned in VIAF entries, I think, but I can't immediately find it. Ben Schmidt did something similar based on first names of authors: http://sappingattention.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/women-in-libraries.html -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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