Yes very interesting, if only to illustrate how difficult it is to get this information reliably. It is also interesting to see those charts dating to the days before Wikidata. One problem with using these stats is that pretty much everything is a moving target. Yes there is a larger gap at the local level for women, but what is "local"? Many women who became notable, did it from home (e.g. writers, poets, abbesses, noblewomen). The systemic bias in published pre-1900 sources throughout the world is also a factor, since many encyclopedias focussed on clergy and military. The page rank is not a reliable measure because we have no way of knowing what the gender is of our reader base over time. When you break it down into professions, it is also worth noting that professions that you would expect to be 99% female (beauty pageant queen) turn out not to be. In fact, women score systematically lower across the board, and per profession, need many more "kudos" before becoming notable enough for an article (lots of abbesses, but few theologians, etc)
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Eduardo Testart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > One of the members from Wikimedia Chile, independently from the chapter and > before he became a member, was directly involved in the development of the > following article, that adress the gender inequality (or gender bias), and > which gives the title to the email: > > *https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10. > 1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4 > <https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10. > 1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4>* > > > It was published almost a year and half ago (March 1, 2016), and from an > internal and informal conversation that occurred yesterday in the Chapter, > he shared the link to the complete study > <https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10. > 1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4> > (in English). Worth to mention is that he presented preliminary results > <https://www.slideshare.net/carnby/wmcl2015-investigando-usando-wikipedia> > (in Spanish) about it in the Wikimedia Chile Conference > <https://wikimedia.cl/Conferencia_Wikimedia_Chile_2015> from 2015. > > > I read the complete article yesterday, and found it extremely interesting, > so I took the liberty to share it here, in case you haven’t had the chance > to read it yet. > > > Also, the article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons > Attribution 4.0 International License :) > > > Cheers! > -- > Eduardo Testart > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
