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_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
Jane
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
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thanks,
how about artists identifying as neither female nor male?
cheers, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:59:18 +0000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gendergap and checking our progress against external databases
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Claudia, Unfortunately there would be no way to differentiate those artists from the Wikidata items that are currently missing the gender property. Plus that would only include modern artists, as everyone who appears in the external databases that were born before 1900 have already been assigned a gender whether it's one they would have accepted or not. Jane
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:08 PM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
thanks,
how about artists identifying as neither female nor male?
cheers, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:59:18 +0000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gendergap and checking our progress against external databases
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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For ULAN on Wikidata, 477 out of 36,633 are neither male nor female. Two of those have a non-M/F gender assigned. Statistics on those small numbers would essentially be meaningless.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:18 AM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Claudia, Unfortunately there would be no way to differentiate those artists from the Wikidata items that are currently missing the gender property. Plus that would only include modern artists, as everyone who appears in the external databases that were born before 1900 have already been assigned a gender whether it's one they would have accepted or not. Jane
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:08 PM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
thanks,
how about artists identifying as neither female nor male?
cheers, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent:Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:59:18 +0000 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gendergap and checking our progress against external databases
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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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:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
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@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
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Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com
wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
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Exactly! However, I do think this example woman shows a Wikipedia gender bias towards men in that her husband's article has an image and hers doesn't
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M...
I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
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Google image search for properly licensed images didn't give me an image of her, neither did Commons. Maybe I just overlooked it, but maybe there is no image of her in the article because there is no free image of her? In that case, it would not be bias of Wikipedia, but again bias of the interwebs.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly! However, I do think this example woman shows a Wikipedia gender bias towards men in that her husband's article has an image and hers doesn't
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278
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: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M... > > 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@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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Yes you have a point there, and it is this "systemic interweb gender bias" which is interesting. Due to our need for "reliable sources" to solve gendergap issues, it would be nice to be able to expose these "interweb" imbalances with graphs like yours for all databases. What does the ODNB look like? That one is completely matched now. I measured 10% women over all.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Google image search for properly licensed images didn't give me an image of her, neither did Commons. Maybe I just overlooked it, but maybe there is no image of her in the article because there is no free image of her? In that case, it would not be bias of Wikipedia, but again bias of the interwebs.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly! However, I do think this example woman shows a Wikipedia gender bias towards men in that her husband's article has an image and hers doesn't
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 > > 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: >> >> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M... >> >> 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@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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Updated blog with ODNB (49,419 men, 5,581 women) plot.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:31 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Yes you have a point there, and it is this "systemic interweb gender bias" which is interesting. Due to our need for "reliable sources" to solve gendergap issues, it would be nice to be able to expose these "interweb" imbalances with graphs like yours for all databases. What does the ODNB look like? That one is completely matched now. I measured 10% women over all.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
Google image search for properly licensed images didn't give me an image of her, neither did Commons. Maybe I just overlooked it, but maybe there is no image of her in the article because there is no free image of her? In that case, it would not be bias of Wikipedia, but again bias of the interwebs.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly! However, I do think this example woman shows a Wikipedia gender bias towards men in that her husband's article has an image and hers doesn't
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
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 jane023@gmail.com 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@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 >> >> 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: >>> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M... >>> >>> 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@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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oooo nice!
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Updated blog with ODNB (49,419 men, 5,581 women) plot.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:31 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Yes you have a point there, and it is this "systemic interweb gender bias" which is interesting. Due to our need for "reliable sources" to solve gendergap issues, it would be nice to be able to expose these "interweb" imbalances with graphs like yours for all databases. What does the ODNB look like? That one is completely matched now. I measured 10% women over all.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
Google image search for properly licensed images didn't give me an image of her, neither did Commons. Maybe I just overlooked it, but maybe there is no image of her in the article because there is no free image of her? In that case, it would not be bias of Wikipedia, but again bias of the interwebs.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:07 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly! However, I do think this example woman shows a Wikipedia gender bias towards men in that her husband's article has an image and hers doesn't
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:46 PM Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Well here you get into a problem with data in the databases. Often the records for men are more fleshed out than for women.
Here are two records in the RKD for male and female based on a US-based husband & wife duo never active in the Netherlands, but who were made popular (with articles on 4 or more language wikis) by a 2014 movie about them: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296853 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/296851
The ULAN only has one record
http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&sub...
One could argue that there is not enough in any of these records to make a Wikidata entry, let alone a Wikipedia article in any language. So just having the record in the ULAN or the RKDartists will not help any language-pedia. The English Wikipedia includes of course articles for both, though they are not sourced to these databases at all.
Which only shows that RKD/ULAN are not the basis for Wikipedia articles. Your "example woman" has 13 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
But, the argument could be made that general coverage on the web is biased towards men, and Wikipedia reflects that trend, if only for a lack of sources.
In comparison, here is a US male artist without any Wikipedia article, born the same year as Mrs. Keane, whose entry in the RKD is well fleshed out, because this person was active in Amsterdam https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/55977
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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 jane023@gmail.com > 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@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 >>> >>> 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: >>>> >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_M... >>>> >>>> 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@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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