Magnus, That is very cool! I also noticed the same trend, which indeed does at first glance appear to be a male bias in the language wikis. However, drilling down into the actual data it's really not so bad. What you actually see is a strong bias from the ULAN for artists who have been active in the US for whatever reason (artworks in US museum, exhibition, or public art). The RKD has a similar strong bias for artists who have been active in the Northern & Southern Netherlands and adjoining countries (nl, fr + de). We should offset this by looking at other databases, and also looking at the same cross-wiki data for all biographies with occupation=artist.
Jane On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected] > wrote: > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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