Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gendergap and checking our progress against external databases

Well, a "local bias" would push the total coverage in a certain language, as evidences by high nl.wp coverage for RKD but not for ULAN. But how would that affect the gender bias? No matter how popular RKDartists are on a Wikipedia, unbiased coverage should always put them on the line in my plots. However, only the almost-complete Wikipedias come near that line. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:27 AM Jane Darnell &lt;jane023(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > 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&gt; wrote: > >> http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 >> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:48 AM Jane Darnell &lt;jane023(a)gmail.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l