On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM, alexhinojo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells us how many articles are biographies about women x language/country/culture.
In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is an existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD query about it?
I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki 12% of bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous encyclopedia".
We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other databases existing in projects like Mix and match.
Can someone help? thanks in advance
Àlex Hinojo User:Kippelboy Amical Wikimedia Programme manager
Interesting question. There may be more suitable venues for it, e.g. the research mailing list (CCed). Anyway, to start with two examples:
http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/gender-bias-in-wikipedia-and-britann...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/May#Notable_women_.... Comparison of Wikipedia with, among other sources, "Human Accomplishment", a 2003 "ranking of geniuses throughout the ages and around the world based on their prominence in contemporary encyclopedias" (NYT)
I have often thought we should go through at least one volume of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica for this purpose. The cawiki is great though. I always check the %female factor in all completed lists I have, so I also checked cawiki in my TED speakers list, even though ca is not one of the languages in the TED translation team. See the overall table of results here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/TED_conferences
As usual, the Swedes score the best of all the European languages, but cawiki still beats nlwiki by quite a bit.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM, alexhinojo@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells us
how many articles are biographies about women x language/country/culture.
In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is an
existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD query about it?
I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki 12% of
bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous encyclopedia".
We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other databases
existing in projects like Mix and match.
Can someone help? thanks in advance
Àlex Hinojo User:Kippelboy Amical Wikimedia Programme manager
Interesting question. There may be more suitable venues for it, e.g. the research mailing list (CCed). Anyway, to start with two examples:
http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/gender-bias-in-wikipedia-and-britann...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/May#Notable_women_.... Comparison of Wikipedia with, among other sources, "Human Accomplishment", a 2003 "ranking of geniuses throughout the ages and around the world based on their prominence in contemporary encyclopedias" (NYT)
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