Our traditional way of creating article is based on the interests of the
contributors. This produces skewed total result, and this becomes more
evident on a smaller version like svwp, then on bigger. We have long
come to the conclusion that we will never be able to fill categories
like towns in Mali and basketballplayer in Brazil, where we have had
something like less then 10% of entries then the same categories on enwp
(or frwp)
Wikidata can be of help evening out, but on svwp we have (also since
long) said we must work and have a more systematic and deliberate
approach to fill out "empty spaces"
We therefore love Lsjbot which now generates several million good and
comprehensive articles on geographical entities all over the world from
the most complete database that exists, and where areas like Africa is
getting exactly the same attention like a Nordic country. It is
completely unrealistic to think that the few contributors on svwp would
ever create the now existing 250000 article on entities on Canada or
16500 entries in Antartica. But the bias in the source means Djibuti
only gets 4000 and Camerun 9000 but it is none the less a huge improvement.
For articles on woman/men project are being run by wmse and it now exist
a group of dedicated contributors generating articles on women. I am all
fascinated of sources being used, specially to get entries of women from
middle of 19-th century. All famous ballet dancers in Copenhagen in
1850. All women who had local fame in Finland around 1860, including
local healers etc. They have now created many thousands articles and
getting the rate of articles up to 20% of total (25% of the number for men)
So I believe skewness is becoming an important issue and that we need
to adress oit even if it means to let go the "holy rule" only manual
created article are "real" articles, it is the need of our readers who
should have priority.
Anders
[1] list of article generated by country this far:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_geografiartiklar
[2] latest article generated just now a river in Fiji
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbau_Creek_%28vattendrag,_lat_-16,50,_long_179,08%29
Den 2016-04-20 kl. 23:30, skrev Florence Devouard:
Hello
Sorry for highjacking your thread, but reading your message, I wanted
to share with you a small page I made a few days ago, to quantify the
double gap Gender/Africa.
http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/about-the-project/mind-the-gap/
If anyone has additional links or studies that could be useful to
further illustrate that double gap... I am interested.
Also, if anyone is interested in further exploring this data-wise,
please raise your hand ;)
Florence
Le 20/04/16 09:39, alexhin...@gmail.com a écrit :
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
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