I forgot about that one and it is still interesting, so thanks for reposting! Out of curiosity I also made some queries about the delta factor caused by the English Wikipedia's "Women-in-Red" initiative as opposed to our own Gendergap-in-nlwiki initiative in the Netherlands. I wrote some findings here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Archive_9#Some_results
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I wrote about gender coverage on Wikipedia and Wikidata, including ODNB > comparison: > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250 > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 8:39 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
