Some language versions of Wikipedia do have gender categorization, such as Swedish and German Wikipedia. (The English categories exist but are not used very much.) Here's a link to the Swedish ones:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:M%C3%A4n (men) presently 132 211 articles https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Kvinnor (women) presently 32 693 articles This gives a rough proportion of 1 female for every 4 male. article subject. If my memory serves me, the German Wikipedia numbers are a bit higher (perhaps 1 in 6). The categorization was on Swedish Wikipedia a conscious decision to try and find out where we stood. Best wishes, Lennart Guldbrandsson 070 - 207 80 05 http://www.elementx.se - arbete http://www.mrchapel.wordpress.com - personlig blogg Presentation @aliasHannibal - på Twitter "Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål." Jimmy Wales > From: andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:44:17 +0100 > To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Sex Ratios in Wikidata Part III > > On 9 June 2014 20:21, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> * WIkidata has ~2080k items marked as people > >> * Of these, ~1893k have a "gender" property (91%) > > > Can you define "item" in this context? > > "Item" here is a single Wikidata entry: > > http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320 > > which may correspond to one Wikipedia article, one hundred Wikipedia > articles, etc - but all on the same topic. (Potentially it may > correspond to *no* Wikipedia articles - it's not strictly required, > and in any case the source article may be deleted - but there's > unlikely to be a statistically large number of these just now) > > > 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. > > The new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was about 10% female > when published in 2004, though this was skewed by a limitation to > include all entries from the original, including a lot of - to modern > eyes - very non-notable men. > http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/images/stories/articles/baigent2005.pdf > (It's since crept up to ~11%) > > Max has done some numbers based on gender assigned in VIAF entries, I > think, but I can't immediately find it. Ben Schmidt did something > similar based on first names of authors: > http://sappingattention.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/women-in-libraries.html > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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