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
So interesting this list Asaf.
2016-06-16 16:14 GMT-03:00, Asaf Bartov [email protected]:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Thanks Asaf, it is quite interesting. I have a couple of questions and one comment: - why is Italian wikipedia missing? Is there a problem with wikidata links? - is this kind of analysis possible also to the average user?
The comment is about measuring such ratio in other similar products (encyclopedia, books with biographies etc) to see how wel we fare compared to others.
Best, Giuseppe
2016-06-16 21:14 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov [email protected]:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Hi, Giuseppe.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Giuseppe Profiti [email protected] wrote:
Thanks Asaf, it is quite interesting. I have a couple of questions and one comment:
- why is Italian wikipedia missing? Is there a problem with wikidata links?
Just an oversight -- I accidentally overwrote that line when posting. Now added. (~14.6%)
- is this kind of analysis possible also to the average user?
Sure! Here's a query for number of article about women on ITWP: http://tinyurl.com/hzrdfub
And here's one about men: http://tinyurl.com/h7obnnq
And you can just change the language code to get other languages. The queries are split by gender even though it's possible to get both counts in one query, to decrease the odds of running out of time for the query (an unfortunate limitation due to lacking hardware, which also makes it impossible to count articles about men on ENWP without help from a WMF engineer.)
The comment is about measuring such ratio in other similar products (encyclopedia, books with biographies etc) to see how wel we fare compared to others.
That would indeed be interesting, but I'm leaving that as an exercise for someone else. :)
A.
Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. /a
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Thanks, Asaf!
This is very useful and interesting. There is much work to be done.
Cheers,
Alex
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Anna Stillwell [email protected] wrote:
Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. /a
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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!
:)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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This is so cool! Thanks. :-)
(CCing some wiki-women from He-Wiki).
Shani. On 16 Jun 2016 23:29, "Alex Wang" [email protected] wrote:
Thanks, Asaf!
This is very useful and interesting. There is much work to be done.
Cheers,
Alex
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Anna Stillwell [email protected] wrote:
Thank you for this, Asaf. Very useful. /a
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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!
:)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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the
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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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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
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I think the project evolved over time. It may be that this page did not exist in the first version.
Clearly, the site has been modified recently because the name changed from WIGI to WHGI. And I see the main four pages has been updated.
If you look at "Gender by language" for example, it mentions "As of January 2016 about 98% of biographies were attached to at least one Wikipedia site, so this data is mostly complete."
Gender by date of birth and death mentions "As of January 2016, only about 72% and 36% of biographies, had date of birth and date of death data, respectively, so this data is incomplete."
Gender by country mentions "As of January 2016, only about 30% of biographies, had place of birth, so this data is incomplete."
and "As of January 2016, only about 65% of biographies, had culture, so this data is incomplete."
Recently, these dates were much further in the past. I know because I noticed and ask Max for fresher data https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/CCLSKN2tmQE A small table published there may answer part of your questions.
Ant
Le 17/06/16 à 00:22, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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
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Hi Asaf,
The table is quite interesting! This is the first time I could imagine the actual situation about the coverage of women biographies in various Wikipedias, especially in my home Wiki, the Bengali Wikipedia. I'm going to spread this statistics among the community.
And I have asked Ganesh, one of the veteran Nepali Wikipedian, as to why the statistics of Nepali WP is that much astonishing. I'll convey his reply to this thread.
Thanks.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Florence Devouard [email protected] wrote:
I think the project evolved over time. It may be that this page did not exist in the first version.
Clearly, the site has been modified recently because the name changed from WIGI to WHGI. And I see the main four pages has been updated.
If you look at "Gender by language" for example, it mentions "As of January 2016 about 98% of biographies were attached to at least one Wikipedia site, so this data is mostly complete."
Gender by date of birth and death mentions "As of January 2016, only about 72% and 36% of biographies, had date of birth and date of death data, respectively, so this data is incomplete."
Gender by country mentions "As of January 2016, only about 30% of biographies, had place of birth, so this data is incomplete."
and "As of January 2016, only about 65% of biographies, had culture, so this data is incomplete."
Recently, these dates were much further in the past. I know because I noticed and ask Max for fresher data https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/CCLSKN2tmQE A small table published there may answer part of your questions.
Ant
Le 17/06/16 à 00:22, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
Perhaps you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or
you can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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Hello Asaf, hello Florence,
the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in before 18th century women found less notice in the historical documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of the ja-wp result?
If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable resource for cultural history researches since never before there was such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data.
Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy?
If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put together and are just waiting for them to mine.
Greetings Ting
Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
Perhaps you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.
Or you can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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Nepali seems to have come a long way since I ran my analysis: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250 (see the big dot-plot; note that I compare the length of the articles, rather than their number)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM Ting Chen [email protected] wrote:
Hello Asaf, hello Florence,
the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in before 18th century women found less notice in the historical documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of the ja-wp result?
If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable resource for cultural history researches since never before there was such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data.
Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy?
If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put together and are just waiting for them to mine.
Greetings Ting
Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
Perhaps you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.
Or you can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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How do you get negative one biographies?
149 Mongolian 2 -1 -50.00 148 Punjabi 2 -1
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:15 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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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!
:)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or
you
can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:14 PM Robert Fernandez [email protected] wrote:
How do you get negative one biographies?
149 Mongolian 2 -1 -50.00 148 Punjabi 2 -1
The lines you quote were from the "diff" section, i.e. there were two articles about men more than the previous period, and one less about women. (This can mean an article about a woman was deleted, or it could mean three articles about women were created but four were deleted, etc.)
A.
Hi Asaf,
I asked Ganesh Paudel, one of the veteran Nepali Wikipedians, to know their story behind such astonishing statistics (48% women biographies). Here is what he said:
'We have been conducting WikiWomen editathon since march 2013. That was focused to increase quality n quantity of women related issues. This focused approach might have grown the contents.'
Thanks.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or you
can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
- 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.
I looked, and it seems that a large proportion consists of porn actresses... See the attached sample, giving an almost-randomly chosen sample of 11 of the 1400 or so identified people on Nepali Wikipedia.
Hello, everyone.
Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the *content gender gap* in Wikipedia biographies (i.e. how many articles are about men versus how many are about women). I intended to keep generating snapshots of these stats, to track progress against the gap, but then realized the excellent WHGI project[1] is already collecting and preserving snapshots of the data, so I did not do so myself.
However, being curious about the numbers for a particular community, I realized WHGI does not provide an easy way to compare snapshots across time. The data is all there[2], but a convenient visualization and comparison tool between two arbitrary snapshots is not available yet. So while I did not build such a tool myself, I did update my little page with fresh numbers, *plus a comparison to the June 2016 *numbers.
You may find the data interesting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap#Data_as_of_February_20... (note that the table is sortable by clicking the column heads)
While it is difficult to ascribe the change to specific programs, overall there can be little doubt that the increased attention to the content gender gap, alongside specific programs and groups such as Women in Red, Art+Feminism, WikiMujeres, WikiDonne, and even certain runs of #100wikidays, have all contributed to narrowing the gap on most Wikipedias.
Special congratulations to the Punjabi, Malayalam, and Odia Wikipedias, which have all narrowed the gap by more than 10 points! Of the larger wikis, great progress was made by the Vietnamese and Armenian Wikipedias.
As before, I'll note:
1. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a dent in these numbers!
2. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html [2] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/snapshot_data/
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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! :)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org
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I also had a tweet, about gender ratio in Wikidata, grouped by external property: https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1224703188693069827
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 9:25 AM Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
Hello, everyone.
Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the *content gender gap* in Wikipedia biographies (i.e. how many articles are about men versus how many are about women). I intended to keep generating snapshots of these stats, to track progress against the gap, but then realized the excellent WHGI project[1] is already collecting and preserving snapshots of the data, so I did not do so myself.
However, being curious about the numbers for a particular community, I realized WHGI does not provide an easy way to compare snapshots across time. The data is all there[2], but a convenient visualization and comparison tool between two arbitrary snapshots is not available yet. So while I did not build such a tool myself, I did update my little page with fresh numbers, *plus a comparison to the June 2016 *numbers.
You may find the data interesting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap#Data_as_of_February_20... (note that the table is sortable by clicking the column heads)
While it is difficult to ascribe the change to specific programs, overall there can be little doubt that the increased attention to the content gender gap, alongside specific programs and groups such as Women in Red, Art+Feminism, WikiMujeres, WikiDonne, and even certain runs of #100wikidays, have all contributed to narrowing the gap on most Wikipedias.
Special congratulations to the Punjabi, Malayalam, and Odia Wikipedias, which have all narrowed the gap by more than 10 points! Of the larger wikis, great progress was made by the Vietnamese and Armenian Wikipedias.
As before, I'll note:
- Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
dent in these numbers!
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html [2] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/snapshot_data/
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM Asaf Bartov [email protected] wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.
- 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.)
among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
- 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!
:)
- I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities. Perhaps
you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
- I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request. Or
you
can do it yourself, too. :)
A.
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