Hi Asaf, The table is quite interesting! This is the first time I could imagine the actual situation about the coverage of women biographies in various Wikipedias, especially in my home Wiki, the Bengali Wikipedia. I'm going to spread this statistics among the community.
And I have asked Ganesh, one of the veteran Nepali Wikipedian, as to why the statistics of Nepali WP is that much astonishing. I'll convey his reply to this thread. Thanks. On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the project evolved over time. It may be that this page did not > exist in the first version. > > Clearly, the site has been modified recently because the name changed from > WIGI to WHGI. And I see the main four pages has been updated. > > If you look at "Gender by language" for example, it mentions "As of > January 2016 about 98% of biographies were attached to at least one > Wikipedia site, so this data is mostly complete." > > Gender by date of birth and death mentions "As of January 2016, only about > 72% and 36% of biographies, had date of birth and date of death data, > respectively, so this data is incomplete." > > Gender by country mentions "As of January 2016, only about 30% of > biographies, had place of birth, so this data is incomplete." > > and "As of January 2016, only about 65% of biographies, had culture, so > this data is incomplete." > > Recently, these dates were much further in the past. I know because I > noticed and ask Max for fresher data > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/CCLSKN2tmQE > A small table published there may answer part of your questions. > > Ant > > Le 17/06/16 à 00:22, Asaf Bartov a écrit : > > Thanks, Florence! >> >> I was aware of the WIGI research project (and have linked to it in the >> ==See Also== section of my page), but I was not aware of this page. Neat! >> So I won't need to update my own page. :) >> >> A. >> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello Asaf >>> >>> Just making sure that you knew about WHGI : >>> http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html >>> >>> Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two >>> analysis ? >>> >>> I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well. >>> >>> Flo >>> >>> >>> Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit : >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- Regards, Tanweer _______________________________________________ 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>
