Thanks, Florence! I was aware of the WIGI research project (and have linked to it in the ==See Also== section of my page), but I was not aware of this page. Neat! So I won't need to update my own page. :)
A. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Asaf > > Just making sure that you knew about WHGI : > http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html > > Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two analysis ? > > I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well. > > Flo > > > Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit : > >> Hullo everyone. >> >> I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in >> content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query >> Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given >> Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of >> articles about women out of all articles about humans*. >> >> Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran >> the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a >> table, >> here: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap >> >> (please see the *caveat* there.) >> >> I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in those >> results, but I will quickly point out the following: >> >> 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story >> there. I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light. >> >> 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of >> articles about women among all biographies. >> >> 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced. Good >> job, Japanese Wikipedians! I wonder if you have a good sense of what >> drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop >> culture >> coverage.) >> >> 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced. >> >> 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to >> eventually have some sense of trends and changes. >> >> 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a >> dent in these numbers! For example, it seems I am personally >> responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew Wikipedia! >> :) >> >> 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps >> you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :) >> >> 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or you >> can do it yourself, too. :) >> >> A. >> >> [1] https://query.wikidata.org/ >> [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
