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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. /a On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov &lt;abartov(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: table, those Good culture Wikipedia! you -- Anna Stillwell Director of Culture and Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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

Thanks Asaf, it is quite interesting. I have a couple of questions and one comment: - why is Italian wikipedia missing? Is there a problem with wikidata links?

I think the project evolved over time. It may be that this page did not exist in the first version. Clearly, the site has been modified recently because the name changed from WIGI to WHGI. And I see the main four pages has been updated. If you look at "Gender by language" for example, it mentions "As of January 2016 about 98% of biographies were attached to at least one Wikipedia site, so this data is mostly complete." Gender by date of birth and death mentions "As of January 2016, only about 72% and 36% of biographies, had date of birth and date of death data, respectively, so this data is incomplete." Gender by country mentions "As of January 2016, only about 30% of biographies, had place of birth, so this data is incomplete." and "As of January 2016, only about 65% of biographies, had culture, so this data is incomplete." Recently, these dates were much further in the past. I know because I noticed and ask Max for fresher data https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/CCLSKN2tmQE A small table published there may answer part of your questions. Ant Le 17/06/16 à 00:22, Asaf Bartov a écrit : Thanks, Florence! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Hello Asaf, hello Florence, the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in before 18th century women found less notice in the historical documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of the ja-wp result? If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable resource for cultural history researches since never before there was such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data. Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy? If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put together and are just waiting for them to mine. Greetings Ting Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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.

Hello, everyone. Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the *content gender gap* in Wikipedia biographies (i.e. how many articles are about men versus how many are about women). I intended to keep generating snapshots of these stats, to track progress against the gap, but then realized the excellent WHGI project[1] is already collecting and preserving snapshots of the data, so I did not do so myself. However, being curious about the numbers for a particular community, I realized WHGI does not provide an easy way to compare snapshots across time. The data is all there[2], but a convenient visualization and comparison tool between two arbitrary snapshots is not available yet. So while I did not build such a tool myself, I did update my little page with fresh numbers, *plus a comparison to the June 2016 *numbers. You may find the data interesting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap#Data_as_of_February_2… (note that the table is sortable by clicking the column heads) While it is difficult to ascribe the change to specific programs, overall there can be little doubt that the increased attention to the content gender gap, alongside specific programs and groups such as Women in Red, Art+Feminism, WikiMujeres, WikiDonne, and even certain runs of #100wikidays, have all contributed to narrowing the gap on most Wikipedias. Special congratulations to the Punjabi, Malayalam, and Odia Wikipedias, which have all narrowed the gap by more than 10 points! Of the larger wikis, great progress was made by the Vietnamese and Armenian Wikipedias. As before, I'll note: 1. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a dent in these numbers! 2. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :) Cheers, A. [1] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html [2] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/snapshot_data/ On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM Asaf Bartov &lt;abartov(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: table, those Good culture Wikipedia! you -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

How do you get negative one biographies? 149 Mongolian 2 -1 -50.00 148 Punjabi 2 -1