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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:48 AM Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am compiling some stats regarding the work done on the Art & Feminism
> edit-a-thons for my local chapter and while checking the state of the wikis
> regarding female artists I noticed that there are huge local differences
> per language wiki regarding "who is notable". One of the things I love
> about Mix-and-Match is the way you can easily check the sitelinks per wiki.
> You can also download the data with autolist to see which biographies are
> popular across different languages. I noticed that in the case of women
> this seems to be way different than for men. Women artists are more likely
> to be notable in one or two languages only, possibly because they travel
> less, making their art known more locally than otherwise - who knows?
>
> In any case, here is something to chew on:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_vs_Men_per_external_db_using_Mix-n-Match.jpg
>
> I wish we had more databases from more countries that only contain artists
> that we could load into Mix-and-Match!
>
> Jane
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