Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. /a On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- 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@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
