User:Ijon/Content gap
I was curious about the content gap in articles about men vs. articles about women, so I pulled up some data through Wikidata.
Big caveat: only entities that -- 1. have Wikidata items; 2. are known to Wikidata as humans; 3. have either 'male' or 'female' as their gender -- are counted here. This undoubtedly leaves out quite a few people (especially people with no interwikis, where a Wikidata item may never have been created), so read the numbers as at least X, but the proportion should be statistically valid. (I guesstimate the margin of error introduced by these shortcomings to be generally under 10%, and lower on the larger wikis.)
Data as of June 15th 2016
[edit]Language | # of articles about men | # of articles about women | % of articles about women out of all humans |
---|---|---|---|
ne | 1372 | 1306 | ~48.8% |
ur | 5026 | 2689 | ~34.9% |
ko | 44062 | 13321 | ~23.2% |
te | 2720 | 793 | ~22.6% |
ja | 181416 | 50902 | ~21.9% |
pa | 3186 | 874 | ~21.5% |
no | 102911 | 27090 | ~20.8% |
or | 759 | 197 | ~20.6% |
sv | 149318 | 37349 | ~20.0% |
ml | 6643 | 1653 | ~19.9% |
vi | 17640 | 3854 | ~17.9% |
ms | 9470 | 2023 | ~17.6% |
sr | 25446 | 5488 | ~17.7% |
fi | 103570 | 22017 | ~17.5% |
es | 234635 | 49551 | ~17.4% |
zh | 99140 | 20832 | ~17.3% |
hi | 8534 | 1756 | ~17.1% |
et | 30567 | 6297 | ~17.1% |
id | 35432 | 7283 | ~17.0% |
he | 47988 | 9727 | ~16.8% |
kn | 1975 | 397 | ~16.7% |
pt | 151340 | 30058 | ~16.5% |
en | 1147981 | 224258 | ~16.3% |
nl | 154224 | 29931 | ~16.2% |
bg | 46162 | 8682 | ~15.8% |
fr | 398382 | 74074 | ~15.6% |
tr | 51804 | 9539 | ~15.6% |
pl | 243590 | 44358 | ~15.4% |
bn | 7880 | 1420 | ~15.2% |
ar | 76379 | 13617 | ~15.1% |
de | 520916 | 93043 | ~15.1% |
it | 259088 | 44159 | ~14.6% |
lv | 13719 | 2243 | ~14.1% |
mr | 8784 | 1413 | ~13.9% |
gu | 1059 | 171 | ~13.9% |
ru | 278018 | 44477 | ~13.8% |
hy | 20644 | 3271 | ~13.6% |
uk | 97021 | 15076 | ~13.4% |
hu | 69788 | 10658 | ~13.2% |
ca | 97236 | 14511 | ~13.0% |
ta | 13668 | 1997 | ~12.7% |
Data as of February 2020
[edit]Language | # of articles about men | # of articles about women | % of women out of total | Change in points since June 2016 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Estonian | 38316 | 9252 | 19.45% | 2.35 |
Nepali | 2618 | 1818 | 40.98% | -7.82 |
Hebrew | 63286 | 15581 | 19.76% | 2.96 |
Urdu | 9906 | 3762 | 27.52% | -7.38 |
Korean | 72484 | 23476 | 24.46% | 1.26 |
Telugu | 4204 | 1463 | 25.82% | 3.22 |
Japanese | 242323 | 68042 | 21.92% | 0.02 |
Punjabi | 5604 | 3509 | 38.51% | 17.01 |
Norwegian | 125785 | 38715 | 23.53% | 2.73 |
Odia | 1780 | 944 | 34.65% | 14.05 |
Swedish | 180137 | 48563 | 21.23% | 1.23 |
Malayalam | 9901 | 4506 | 31.28% | 11.38 |
Vietnamese | 42694 | 14597 | 25.48% | 7.58 |
Serbian | 35410 | 8303 | 18.99% | 1.29 |
Malaysian | 21495 | 4302 | 16.68% | -0.92 |
Finnish | 120535 | 29537 | 19.68% | 2.18 |
Spanish | 306173 | 80719 | 20.86% | 3.46 |
Chinese | 138903 | 32283 | 18.86% | 1.56 |
Hindi | 14120 | 4133 | 22.64% | 5.54 |
Indonesian | 60219 | 13785 | 18.63% | 1.63 |
Kannada | 2955 | 924 | 23.82% | 7.12 |
Portuguese | 185018 | 41030 | 18.15% | 1.65 |
Dutch | 180179 | 38152 | 17.47% | 1.27 |
Bulgarian | 61227 | 12263 | 16.69% | 0.89 |
French | 481537 | 106250 | 18.08% | 2.48 |
Turkish | 68678 | 15812 | 18.71% | 3.11 |
Polish | 293359 | 56357 | 16.12% | 0.72 |
Arabic | 378628 | 70299 | 15.66% | 0.56 |
Bangla | 17660 | 4847 | 21.54% | 6.34 |
German | 628444 | 119123 | 15.93% | 0.83 |
Italian | 329316 | 61352 | 15.70% | 1.10 |
Marathi | 10410 | 2220 | 17.58% | 3.68 |
Gujarati | 1470 | 289 | 16.43% | 2.53 |
Armenian | 34109 | 8676 | 20.28% | 6.68 |
Russian | 369326 | 63749 | 14.72% | 0.92 |
Ukrainian | 150223 | 28070 | 15.74% | 2.34 |
Hungarian | 91180 | 15933 | 14.87% | 1.67 |
Catalan | 129873 | 26986 | 17.20% | 4.20 |
Tamil | 19105 | 3832 | 16.71% | 4.01 |
Georgian | 8266 | 1815 | 18.00% | no data for 2016 |
Latvian | 19175 | 4161 | 17.83% | 3.73 |
English | 1376012 | 306677 | 18.23% | 1.93 |
See Also
[edit]- WIGI data
- Research:Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index
- the research paper (PDF) - based on data collected in late 2014