Hi Alex,
I compiled some numbers for the Oxford DNB a while ago. After the most
recent update, they have 6630 female, 53260 male, so 9% female. (This
omits any group/family entries). I haven't crosschecked this against
the Wikidata figures but they should be broadly comparable.
Britannica (and most other resources we're linking to) can't easily be
done in Wikidata as we don't have comprehensive matching yet. However,
there's an older study which is probably relevant:
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewArticle/777
Andrew.
On 20 April 2016 at 08:39, <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
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