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
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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)
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
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