Re: [Wikimedia-l] Africa / Gender gaps (was Re: Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias)

Our traditional way of creating article is based on the interests of the contributors. This produces skewed total result, and this becomes more evident on a smaller version like svwp, then on bigger. We have long come to the conclusion that we will never be able to fill categories like towns in Mali and basketballplayer in Brazil, where we have had something like less then 10% of entries then the same categories on enwp (or frwp) Wikidata can be of help evening out, but on svwp we have (also since long) said we must work and have a more systematic and deliberate approach to fill out "empty spaces" We therefore love Lsjbot which now generates several million good and comprehensive articles on geographical entities all over the world from the most complete database that exists, and where areas like Africa is getting exactly the same attention like a Nordic country. It is completely unrealistic to think that the few contributors on svwp would ever create the now existing 250000 article on entities on Canada or 16500 entries in Antartica. But the bias in the source means Djibuti only gets 4000 and Camerun 9000 but it is none the less a huge improvement. For articles on woman/men project are being run by wmse and it now exist a group of dedicated contributors generating articles on women. I am all fascinated of sources being used, specially to get entries of women from middle of 19-th century. All famous ballet dancers in Copenhagen in 1850. All women who had local fame in Finland around 1860, including local healers etc. They have now created many thousands articles and getting the rate of articles up to 20% of total (25% of the number for men) So I believe skewness is becoming an important issue and that we need to adress oit even if it means to let go the "holy rule" only manual created article are "real" articles, it is the need of our readers who should have priority. Anders [1] list of article generated by country this far: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_geografiartiklar [2] latest article generated just now a river in Fiji https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbau_Creek_%28vattendrag,_lat_-16,50,_long_17… Den 2016-04-20 kl. 23:30, skrev Florence Devouard: