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 _______________________________________________ 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>
