On 9 June 2014 23:34, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Some language versions of Wikipedia do have gender categorization, such as > Swedish and German Wikipedia. (The English categories exist but are not used > very much.) Here's a link to the Swedish ones: > > https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:M%C3%A4n (men) > presently 132 211 articles > > https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Kvinnor (women) > presently 32 693 articles > > This gives a rough proportion of 1 female for every 4 male. article subject. > If my memory serves me, the German Wikipedia numbers are a bit higher > (perhaps 1 in 6). > > The categorization was on Swedish Wikipedia a conscious decision to try and > find out where we stood.
Thanks - I knew about the German categories but not the Swedish ones. Interestingly, Wikidata reports: 32661 female on svwiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20and%20claim%5B21%3A6581072%5D%20and%20link%5Bsvwiki%5D 130801 male on svwiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20and%20claim%5B21%3A6581097%5D%20and%20link%5Bsvwiki%5D Wikidata gives 20% female, the Wikipedia categories give 21%, but they're in reasonably good alignment - almost perfectly matching for women, and about 1500 men not in Wikidata. I'll have a look at getting these mapped across tonight :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
