Nepali seems to have come a long way since I ran my analysis: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250 (see the big dot-plot; note that I compare the length of the articles, rather than their number)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Asaf, hello Florence, > > the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both > contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in > before 18th century women found less notice in the historical > documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was > less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise > of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of > the ja-wp result? > > If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable > resource for cultural history researches since never before there was > such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data. > > Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance > to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy? > > If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community > because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't > pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put > together and are just waiting for them to mine. > > Greetings > Ting > > > Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard: > > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
