This is excellent Jane - and shows that the potential for creating community (wikiprojects) can really help to improve content and experience for all involved.
Also proud as a contributor about women artists =) Thanks for sharing this! -Sarah On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am preparing some slides for the Dutch Wikiconference this Saturday and > wanted to share some interesting data on female artists. This year I have > been working on various museum collections of paintings, while continuing > to work on painter biographies. I am a big user of the Dutch RKD database > of artists, which Magnus has kindly placed in Mix-n-Match. Just using the > matches I made and the automatic matches, it is now possible to see some > interesting data on how artists are represented across wikis. > > The RKDartists database metadata was downloaded this year and contains > 94,944 males and 60,282 females, or roughly 24% females, of which most were > born after 1850. I have said before that part of the gendergap in the arts > is caused by copyright issues (copyright-gap), and since most notable women > artists were born after 1850, it would always appear that women are > significantly less represented than men. The good news is that Wikimedia > projects are much more welcoming to female artists than museum collections, > where the percentage of women tends to be less than 3%. The data I have now > shows that most Wikimedia projects have a percentage of women artist > biographies that are well above 5%, or more than double what museums have > on show. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Females_in_matched_RKDartists.jpg > > I gathered the data using autolist and various combinations of the queries > below > 1) claim[21:6581072] and claim[650] > 2) claim[650] and link[enwiki] > > I assume similar results could be seen for the Joconde database, which I > may do later. > > Best, > Jane > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com
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