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:
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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM,
<alexhinojo(a)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
[
1]http://wigi.wmflabs.org/
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-britan…
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)
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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