This is so cool! Thanks. :-)
(CCing some wiki-women from He-Wiki).
Shani.
On 16 Jun 2016 23:29, "Alex Wang" <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks, Asaf!
This is very useful and interesting. There is much work to be done.
Cheers,
Alex
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful.
/a
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hullo everyone.
>
> I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
> content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
> Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
> Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
> articles about women out of all articles about humans*.
>
> Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I
ran
the
queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a
table,
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap
(please see the *caveat* there.)
I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in
those
results, but I will quickly point out the
following:
1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
there. I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.
2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.
Good
job, Japanese Wikipedians! I wonder if you have
a good sense of what
drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop
culture
> coverage.)
>
> 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
>
> 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
> eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
>
> 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really
make a
dent in
these numbers! For example, it seems I am personally
responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew
Wikipedia!
> :)
>
> 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
Perhaps
you'd
like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or
you
> can do it yourself, too. :)
>
> A.
>
> [1]
https://query.wikidata.org/
> [2] Yay #100wikidays :)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
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>
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