I have often thought we should go through at least one volume of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica for this purpose. The cawiki is great though. I always check the %female factor in all completed lists I have, so I also checked cawiki in my TED speakers list, even though ca is not one of the languages in the TED translation team. See the overall table of results here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/TED_conferences
As usual, the Swedes score the best of all the European languages, but cawiki still beats nlwiki by quite a bit. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM, <alexhin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells us > how many articles are biographies about women x language/country/culture. > > > > In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is an > existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? > (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD query > about it? > > > > I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki 12% of > bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous encyclopedia". > > > > We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other databases > existing in projects like Mix and match. > > > > Can someone help? thanks in advance > > > > > > [1]http://wigi.wmflabs.org/ > > > > > > Àlex Hinojo > > User:Kippelboy > > Amical Wikimedia Programme manager > > Interesting question. There may be more suitable venues for it, e.g. > the research mailing list (CCed). Anyway, to start with two examples: > > > http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/gender-bias-in-wikipedia-and-britannica.html > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/May#Notable_women_.22slightly_overrepresented.22_.28not_underrepresented.29_on_Wikipedia.2C_but_the_Smurfette_principle_still_holds > Comparison of Wikipedia with, among other sources, "Human > Accomplishment", a 2003 "ranking of geniuses throughout the ages and > around the world based on their prominence in contemporary > encyclopedias" (NYT) > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ 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>
