[Gendergap] Percentage of articles about women artists vs # of articles about men, using Wikidata
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
[Gendergap] Look who's in the paper!! :)
The super awesome WikiWoman Christine Meyer is! This is a most excellent article - thank you Christine for your ongoing work! http://www.inlander.com/spokane/writing-her-place/Content?oid=2372780 Sarah -- 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
Re: [Gendergap] Percentage of articles about women artists vs # of articles about men, using Wikidata
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
Re: [Gendergap] Look who's in the paper!! :)
Thanks Sarah. I'm actually surprised at how well it was written. Sometimes the press gets stuff about WP so wrong, but this time the reporter did a good job. Christine Username: Figureskatingfan On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: The super awesome WikiWoman Christine Meyer is! This is a most excellent article - thank you Christine for your ongoing work! http://www.inlander.com/spokane/writing-her-place/Content?oid=2372780 Sarah -- 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 -- Christine Christine W. Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com 208/310-1549 ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Look who's in the paper!! :)
Great piece! Thank you Christine, for continually inspiring us :) And thanks, Sarah, for the link! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: The super awesome WikiWoman Christine Meyer is! This is a most excellent article - thank you Christine for your ongoing work! http://www.inlander.com/spokane/writing-her-place/Content?oid=2372780 Sarah -- 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 -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
