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@googlemail.com> wrote:On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:48 AM Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> 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: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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