User:Emijrp/Systemic bias

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Inequalities Systemic bias Incomplete and biased knowledge

Systemic bias, gaps and imbalances. Lots of them.

Summary

• #Age:
• #External links:
• #Gender gap:
• #Geography: There are 1,200,616 geolocated points in English Wikipedia. 1,088,292 (90.64%) are located in the Northern Hemisphere, 112,324 (9.36%) in the Southern one. Another 5,196 points are located in other bodies of our Solar System (including the Moon): in this case, the ratio is 51.06% Northern–48.94% Southern.
• #History: There are more than 700,000 biographies in English Wikipedia. 72% are about people who lived in the 20th century. 99.66% lived in the 2nd millennium.
• #Images: ...
• #Language: There are between 5000 and 10000 languages in the world but only 279 Wikipedias (2.79–5.58%).
• #Main Page:
• #Religion:

Age

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Education

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External links

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Gender gap

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Communities comparisons

Number of males and females differences in communities.

Wikimedia Foundation wikis

See /Wikimedia comparison.

See wmcharts.

Rough approximation using only the top 100 users. Only a very few of them have filled the gender parameter, so, it is not a good approximation:

• /English Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~9 men
• /French Wikipedia: 0 women
  • 0 ? Really ? :) Anthere (talk) 00:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
    • Yep, nobody in the top 100 is defined as "female" : ) (but obviously there are some of them). Using top 10,000 I got better results. emijrp (talk) 01:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
• /Portuguese Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~20 men
• /Italian Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~40 men
• /Russian Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~13 men

Wikia wikis

See /Wikia comparison.

• /WoW Wiki: 0 women, 17 men
• /Familypedia: 1 woman per ~5 men
• /Recipes: 1 woman per ~2.5 men
• /Religion: 1 woman per ~2 men
• /Vintage Sewing Pattern: 11 women, 0 men

Other communities

• Facebook:
• Twitter:

Encyclopedias

Word occurences in several encyclopedias.

Encyclopedia	He	She
Britannica 1911	250090 (95.15%)	12750 (4.85%)
English Wikipedia (2011-01-15)	4769646 (79.92%)	1198690 (20.08%)
The Nuttall Encyclopædia	6152 (92.39%)	507 (7.61%)

Details: egrep -icw "\bshe\b" *

Biographies analysis:

• http://reagle.org/joseph/2009/09/nwhp-women.html

Geography

Global digital divide, language barrier Geographical bias Imbalanced coverage of regions

Worldwide density of geotagged Wikipedia entries (see kolossos tool)

Worldwide density of GeoNames entries

Geographic topics coverage by region.

Geolocation

Earth

As of March 10, 2011, there are 1,200,616 geolocated points in English Wikipedia. 1,088,292 (90.64%) are located in the Northern Hemisphere, 112,324 (9.36%) in the Southern one.

Hemisphere	Points
Northern	1,088,292 (90.64%)
Southern	112,324 (9.36%)
	Total = 1,200,616 (100%)

Date: March 11, 2011.

Hemisphere	Points
Eastern	562,923 (46.89%)
Western	637,693 (53.11%)
	Total = 1,200,616 (100%)

Date: March 11, 2011.

Solar System

Another 5,196 points are located in other bodies of our Solar System (including the Moon): in this case, the ratio is 51.06% Northern–48.94% Southern.

Celestial body	Points
Moon	2070
Mars	1817
Io	266
Venus	223
Ganymede	147
Callisto	143
Mercury	118
Rhea	94
Iapetus	72
Titan	68
Ariel	28
Phobos	24
Titania	21
Enceladus	18
Umbriel	17
Miranda	14
Oberon	13
Phoebe	8
Hyperion	7
Deimos	6
Dione	5
Europa	4
Tethys	3
Mimas	3
Ceres	2
Triton	2
Pluto	2
Jupiter	1
	Total = (100%)

Date: March 11, 2011.

Note: Used the Dispenser database on Toolserver (mysql -h sql-s1; use u_dispenser_p;) [1].

Encyclopedias

Word occurences in several encyclopedias.

Continents

Encyclopedia	Africa	America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Britannica 1911	6482 (21.44%)	8030 (26.56%)	5481 (18.13%)	10211 (33.78%)	28 (0.09%)
English Wikipedia (2011-01-15)	386165 (22.32%)	622113 (35.96%)	242314 (14.01%)	452718 (26.17%)	26787 (1.55%)
The Nuttall Encyclopædia	232 (22.72%)	279 (27.33%)	179 (17.53%)	327 (32.03%)	4 (0.39%)

Countries

See also: Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Geography

News

• n:Category:News articles by region [2]

History

Lack of historians, recentism Historical bias Poor coverage of distant past

• /Contemporary bias

• Wikipedia:Persondata

Images

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2.9M geolocated images in Wikimedia Commons

Language

Global digital divide, minorities Language gap Low language presence on the Internet

Language shapes our world. Every language is a different way to understand the universe. There are between 5000 and 10000 languages in the world (see Lists of languages for detailed lists) but only 279 Wikipedias (2.79–5.58%). So biased.

Questions:

• How many people do not understand any Wikipedia?

Main Page

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News coverage, featured article and image. To study:

• News: 9/11, Hiroshima massacre, Beslan school massacre, and other countries anniversaries
• Images: most of them are US & Australia based?

Religion

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Religion topics coverage by religion.

English Wikipedia users

Religion	Users	Followers (Millions)	Users/Followers (per million)
Atheists	2,797	150	18.65
Buddhists	312	400	0.78
Christians	2,196	2000	1.1
Hinduists	418	828	0.5
Jewish	616	14	44
Muslims	1,443	1570	0.92
Pagans	163	?	?
Pastafarists	587	?	?

More at Category:Wikipedians by religion

Encyclopedias

Word occurences in several encyclopedias.

Encyclopedia	Atheism	Buddhism	Christianity	Hinduism	Islam	Judaism
Britannica 1911	120 (2.72%)	442 (10.03%)	2327 (52.8%)	130 (2.95%)	852 (19.33%)	536 (12.16%)
English Wikipedia (2011-01-15)	9938 (3.19%)	42330 (13.59%)	91811 (29.48%)	22096 (7.09%)	98211 (31.53%)	47064 (15.11%)
The Nuttall Encyclopædia	8 (3.94%)	25 (12.32%)	146 (71.92%)	3 (1.48%)	8 (3.94%)	13 (6.4%)

• Turkish Wikipedia (2011-04-19): İslam (12359), Hıristiyanlık (2058), Hristiyanlık (480), Budizm (1030).

Political

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Politics

Meta bias

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Family	Projects	Articles	All pages	Edits	Admins	Users	Images
Wikipedia	279 (36.71%)	18 132 501	68 322 378	1 084 077 906	4 841	28 023 772	1 938 900
Wiktionary	170 (22.37%)	10 953 937	13 530 055	57 989 852	603	971 397	3 480
Wikibooks	121 (15.92%)	145 136	541 958	5 258 888	277	729 960	40 004
Wikiquote	88 (11.58%)	120 061	427 980	4 007 923	263	533 918	1 333
Wikisource	58 (7.63%)	953 556	3 316 013	11 756 553	338	490 763	22 491
Wikinews	31 (4.08%)	157 950	590 790	8 969 817	256	361 063	4 672
Wikiversity	13 (1.71%)	34 260	202 226	1 563 732	90	354 030	12 233
	Total = 760 (100%)

Date: March 11, 2011

See also

• Wikipedia:Systemic bias
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
• Wikipedia:Userboxes

External links

• http://wikipediasurvey.org
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
• meta:List of largest wikis
• http://strategy.wikimedia.org
  • strategy:Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan Summary
  • strategy:Editor Trends Study
  • strategy:Product Whitepaper
• https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=anwiki

News

• http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/08/31/only-13-of-wikipedia-contributors-are-women-study-says/
• http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/02/where-are-the-women-in-wikipedia

Blog posts

• http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/02/01/wikipedias-gender-gap/
• Why women and wikis do mix
• http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/wp-eb-gender-bias-coverage
• Geographies of the World's Knowledge (Archived September 15, 2011, at WebCite)

Wikipedia Signpost

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-02-14/News and notes
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-02-07/Gender gap

meta

• meta:Top 10 Reasons to Encourage More Women Participation in Wikipedia

Mailing list messages

• Looking for documentation regarding wiki uses by ...

Corpus

• Britannica 1911 29 volumes
• http://download.wikimedia.org - enwiki articles 2010-10-11
• http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets