On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I ran a few quick updates on Max's numbers today. As of 9/6/14: > > * WIkidata has ~2080k items marked as people > * Of these, ~1893k have a "gender" property (91%) > > (Magnus's games are doing an amazing job at filling out these numbers, > by the way - http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=213 ) > > Very quick and dirty statistics follow - note that since we have 9% > undefined, the stats may change a bit as time goes on :-) > > * The gender breakdown across all these people is approximately 1603k > male, 290k female - 84.7% male and 15.3% female. > > * enwiki is 15.5% female; arwiki 14.2%; dewiki 14.9% female; frwiki > 15.2%; eswiki 15.9%; jawiki 18.2%; hiwiki 18.7%; zhwiki 20.1% > > * It's interesting to note that these numbers mostly seem a point or > two better than the numbers Max got a month ago, which probably > represents better data-logging rather than change in the underlying > content > > * There are still very few items with a gender property other than > "male" or "female" - perhaps 100-200 overall - but I suspect this > number will significantly increase as we deal with the remaining > items. > > Andrew. Can you define "item" in this context? Do we have any comparable data points by which to evaluate our progress? Perhaps a similar breakdown of other reference works, or if there is some sort of summary data available about biographies written (using LOC data?), etc.
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