Magnus,
That is very cool! I also noticed the same trend, which indeed does at
first glance appear to be a male bias in the language wikis. However,
drilling down into the actual data it's really not so bad. What you
actually see is a strong bias from the ULAN for artists who have been
active in the US for whatever reason (artworks in US museum, exhibition, or
public art). The RKD has a similar strong bias for artists who have been
active in the Northern & Southern Netherlands and adjoining countries (nl,
fr + de). We should offset this by looking at other databases, and also
looking at the same cross-wiki data for all biographies with
occupation=artist.
Jane
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com
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http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:48 AM Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com
wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> I am compiling some stats regarding the work done on the Art & Feminism
>> edit-a-thons for my local chapter and while checking the state of the wikis
>> regarding female artists I noticed that there are huge local differences
>> per language wiki regarding "who is notable". One of the things I love
>> about Mix-and-Match is the way you can easily check the sitelinks per wiki.
>> You can also download the data with autolist to see which biographies are
>> popular across different languages. I noticed that in the case of women
>> this seems to be way different than for men. Women artists are more likely
>> to be notable in one or two languages only, possibly because they travel
>> less, making their art known more locally than otherwise - who knows?
>>
>> In any case, here is something to chew on:
>>
>>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_…
>>
>> I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain
>> artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
>>
>> Jane
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