Sarah, Glad you like it - I must say I did think of you when I saw all those English Wikipedia links. I think you wrote a lot of them, and many others were probably directly inspired by you in some way or other. I know you also had a big hand in making them "matchable" on Wikidata.
I realize I made a mistake in my email and dropped a leading digit while talking about the numbers in the RKD database - they have around 200,000 male artists vs 60,000 female artists. Another interesting factoid I can state is that Wikipedia is all about the "long tail" and overlap between the language wikis is minimal - only about 7% of all males in the set of Wikidata items have links in all language wikis, and the same goes for the females (7.39% vs 7.21% to be exact), Once you get past the big-ticket names, the long tail gets longer: more than half of the items have one interwikilink or less. For the women the tail is even longer: males 55.39% and females 60.15%. Jane On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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