Hello, I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD database of artists, which Magnus has kindly placed in Mix-n-Match. Just using the matches I made and the automatic matches, it is now possible to see some interesting data on how artists are represented across wikis.
The RKDartists database metadata was downloaded this year and contains 94,944 males and 60,282 females, or roughly 24% females, of which most were born after 1850. I have said before that part of the gendergap in the arts is caused by copyright issues (copyright-gap), and since most notable women artists were born after 1850, it would always appear that women are significantly less represented than men. The good news is that Wikimedia projects are much more welcoming to female artists than museum collections, where the percentage of women tends to be less than 3%. The data I have now shows that most Wikimedia projects have a percentage of women artist biographies that are well above 5%, or more than double what museums have on show. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Females_in_matched_RKDartists.jpg
I gathered the data using autolist and various combinations of the queries below 1) claim[21:6581072] and claim[650] 2) claim[650] and link[enwiki]
I assume similar results could be seen for the Joconde database, which I may do later.
Best, Jane
This is excellent Jane - and shows that the potential for creating community (wikiprojects) can really help to improve content and experience for all involved.
Also proud as a contributor about women artists =)
Thanks for sharing this!
-Sarah
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD database of artists, which Magnus has kindly placed in Mix-n-Match. Just using the matches I made and the automatic matches, it is now possible to see some interesting data on how artists are represented across wikis.
The RKDartists database metadata was downloaded this year and contains 94,944 males and 60,282 females, or roughly 24% females, of which most were born after 1850. I have said before that part of the gendergap in the arts is caused by copyright issues (copyright-gap), and since most notable women artists were born after 1850, it would always appear that women are significantly less represented than men. The good news is that Wikimedia projects are much more welcoming to female artists than museum collections, where the percentage of women tends to be less than 3%. The data I have now shows that most Wikimedia projects have a percentage of women artist biographies that are well above 5%, or more than double what museums have on show. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Females_in_matched_RKDartists.jpg
I gathered the data using autolist and various combinations of the queries below
- claim[21:6581072] and claim[650]
- claim[650] and link[enwiki]
I assume similar results could be seen for the Joconde database, which I may do later.
Best, Jane
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Sarah, Glad you like it - I must say I did think of you when I saw all those English Wikipedia links. I think you wrote a lot of them, and many others were probably directly inspired by you in some way or other. I know you also had a big hand in making them "matchable" on Wikidata.
I realize I made a mistake in my email and dropped a leading digit while talking about the numbers in the RKD database - they have around 200,000 male artists vs 60,000 female artists. Another interesting factoid I can state is that Wikipedia is all about the "long tail" and overlap between the language wikis is minimal - only about 7% of all males in the set of Wikidata items have links in all language wikis, and the same goes for the females (7.39% vs 7.21% to be exact), Once you get past the big-ticket names, the long tail gets longer: more than half of the items have one interwikilink or less. For the women the tail is even longer: males 55.39% and females 60.15%.
Jane
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
This is excellent Jane - and shows that the potential for creating community (wikiprojects) can really help to improve content and experience for all involved.
Also proud as a contributor about women artists =)
Thanks for sharing this!
-Sarah
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD database of artists, which Magnus has kindly placed in Mix-n-Match. Just using the matches I made and the automatic matches, it is now possible to see some interesting data on how artists are represented across wikis.
The RKDartists database metadata was downloaded this year and contains 94,944 males and 60,282 females, or roughly 24% females, of which most were born after 1850. I have said before that part of the gendergap in the arts is caused by copyright issues (copyright-gap), and since most notable women artists were born after 1850, it would always appear that women are significantly less represented than men. The good news is that Wikimedia projects are much more welcoming to female artists than museum collections, where the percentage of women tends to be less than 3%. The data I have now shows that most Wikimedia projects have a percentage of women artist biographies that are well above 5%, or more than double what museums have on show. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Females_in_matched_RKDartists.jpg
I gathered the data using autolist and various combinations of the queries below
- claim[21:6581072] and claim[650]
- claim[650] and link[enwiki]
I assume similar results could be seen for the Joconde database, which I may do later.
Best, Jane
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