Wikidata:WikiProject Women
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WikiProject Women is an effort to get every item about a woman described properly on Wikidata
- with the statements
- instance of (P31)=human (Q5)
- sex or gender (P21)=female (Q6581072)
- occupation (P106)= eg writer, painter, sculptor, judge, politician, scientist, plus any more specific occupations
- date of birth (P569)
- place of birth (P19)
- at least one external identifier
- label/descriptions in 3 languages.
For a start, take a look at Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica (Q27797614) and see also Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Number of women per occupation. You can now browse paintings of women by decade here: Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Portraits of women.
Lots of women were notable for just living to the ripe old age of 100. Their occupation (P106), if they don't have one assigned, should be set to centenarian (Q2944360). Please take a look at some of these women with at least 2 sitelinks who have no date of death (P570) but were born before 1920:
Add P800 (notable works) to Women items
[edit]To help increase overall quality of items about women, please add notable work (P800) to female items. For women sporters an olympic medal or other award. For women writers this could be a published work or important letter. For women inventors a patent. For scientists a discovery or other noted contribution. For actors a movie, play or TV show. For women artists this could be a work of art in a notable museum.
Often, women can be contributors or participants of significant research, creative works, groups or key historical events. By adding contributed to creative work (P3919), participant in (P1344), or member of (P463) to female items, can help expand the visibility of women's contributions to society.
Help clean up paintings by or portraying women
[edit]- Add a painting to Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Self-portraits of women
- Add a painting to Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Portraits of women
- Consider adding fashion items to depicts (P180) on paintings of women, or add other attributes or activities depicted
See also Wikidata:WikiProject Women/ArtAndFeminism 2020 and Denelezh project
Help improve depiction of women writers
[edit]- The effort to clean up items on women writers includes trying to fill in all of the properties listed above, but also to reduce intersection. To track women writers and make them more visible to other projects, please make sure they include occupation (P106) = writer (Q36180):
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Intersected women writers - P106 lacks writer (Q36180) and limited to show 50 items
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women Writers in Review
Help work on these lists of women from Wikipedia projects!
[edit]Below are lists of women items with at least one sitelink in one Wikipedia project:
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Wiki monitor - overview of (P106,P569,P19) maintenance lists per language wiki
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women without occupation - 500 most recently created items, which may include doubles
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women without birthdate - 500 most recently created items, which may include doubles
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women without birthplace - 500 most recently created items, which may include doubles
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women creators without commons category
Help work on these lists of women from other Wikimedia projects!
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Below are lists of women items with a image (P18) and at least one sitelink in one Wikimedia project, but no Commons Creator page (P1472):
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women without commons creator page
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women with P18 but not depicted
- Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women on Wikisource without occupation
Help expand this list of best examples of items about women!
[edit]- Author: Jane Austen (Q36322)
- Scientist: Ada Lovelace (Q7259)
- Musician: Patti Smith (Q557)
- Dancer: Cyd Charisse (Q62558)
- Swimmer: Janet Evans (Q49286)
- Noble: Elizabeth II (Q9682)
What is this WikiProject for?
[edit]Gendergap is officially a participation problem on Wikimedia projects whereby the number of female contributors is less than 15% of the total for any given Wikimedia project. Not all projects have been surveyed, but simple attendance statistics and visual evidence of Wiki meetups seem to indicate this is true. Content is not the same as participation, but a derivative of the observation on the lack of female participation is that content pertaining to women will also be less than "the norm", even though it has not been proven that women are more likely than men to create "female-related content". Since it is extremely hard to measure "female-related content", this is loosely defined as works about women or works by women.
Participants
[edit]Participation template:
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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:{{Ping project|Women}}
- Jane023 (talk) 14:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC), focus on artists and artists' sitters/models
- Rosiestep (talk) 18:43, 16 October 2017 (UTC), focus on: (a) learning!, (b) data visualization, (c) community organizer
- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:36, 16 October 2017 (UTC), focus on researchers
- Checkingfax (talk) 09:19, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- Anthere (talk) 17 October 2017 (UTC), focus on African women
- Shani Evenstein (talk) 13:52, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- Armineaghayan (talk) 19:55, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
- MartinPoulter (talk) focus on awards, e.g. Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (Q28826510)
- Ambrosia10 (talk) 18:34, 8 December 2017 (UTC), focus on women scientists and artists.
- Spinster 💬 20:12, 11 January 2018 (UTC), quite interested in creative women, and much more.
- Ohmyerica talk 01:33, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Geraki (talk) 19:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bodhisattwa (talk) 07:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- Mlemusrojas (talk) 19:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC), focus on artists and researchers
- Alexmar983 (talk) 22:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- Camelia (talk) 15:23, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- Wallacegromit1 (talk) 08:30, 12 March 2020 (UTC), focus on works by historical women (mostly Ancient to Medieval)
- Mathieu Kappler (talk) 15:15, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Patafisik (talk) 13:38, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
- Idieh3 (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
- Daieuxetdailleurs (talk) 19:44, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
- Marianne Casamance (talk) 15:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Thepresidentess (talk) 10:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC), I focus on female authors and women in STEM.
- Dactylantha (talk), focus on historical women within existing archives and manuscript collections within GLAM
- Kitty Jonk (talk) 17:27, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Some reports for orientation purposes:
Gendergap in paintings by collection
[edit]One type of work by women is a painting, so here is a measurement of the current standings regarding paintings according to Wikidata queries. Note the number of paintings by artists of "unknown gender". These are by unknown artists, or haven't had an artist assigned yet with creator (P170). Please help add female creators to painting items - here is a list and from the description you can pick works by women: Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Missing creator
| collection (1-Feb-2017) | # paintings | unknown gender | works by women | works by men | F/(F+M) | Women | Men | F/(F+M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| none | 199214 | 38350 | 10609 | 150255 | 6.6% | 2569 | 19722 | 11.5% |
| Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection (Q18600731) | 10894 | 10191 | 12 | 691 | 1.7% | 6 | 196 | 3.0% |
| Finnish National Gallery (Q2983474) | 9786 | 639 | 1071 | 8076 | 11.7% | 160 | 1027 | 13.5% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (Q160236) | 8511 | 1471 | 548 | 6492 | 7.8% | 294 | 2369 | 11.0% |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305) | 8030 | 730 | 1446 | 5854 | 19.8% | 322 | 1700 | 15.9% |
| Statens Museum for Kunst (Q671384) | 6699 | 455 | 233 | 6011 | 3.7% | 81 | 1505 | 5.1% |
| Rijksmuseum (Q190804) | 5606 | 955 | 62 | 4589 | 1.3% | 37 | 1511 | 2.4% |
| Royal Collection (Q1459037) | 5424 | 2292 | 36 | 3096 | 1.1% | 25 | 820 | 3.0% |
| Tate (Q430682) | 5146 | 475 | 352 | 4319 | 7.5% | 146 | 1204 | 10.8% |
| Hermitage Museum (Q132783) | 5047 | 1938 | 57 | 3052 | 1.8% | 18 | 1254 | 1.4% |
| National Gallery (Q180788) | 4816 | 601 | 96 | 4119 | 2.3% | 53 | 1316 | 3.9% |
| Musée d'Orsay (Q23402) | 4114 | 0 | 79 | 4035 | 1.9% | 32 | 793 | 3.9% |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales (Q705551) | 3931 | 866 | 369 | 2696 | 12.0% | 132 | 880 | 13.0% |
| Belvedere (Q303139) | 3798 | 855 | 138 | 2805 | 4.7% | 45 | 721 | 5.9% |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Q49133) | 3755 | 366 | 223 | 3166 | 6.6% | 128 | 1362 | 8.6% |
| National Galleries Scotland (Q2051997) | 3731 | 837 | 155 | 2739 | 5.4% | 50 | 945 | 5.0% |
| National Gallery of Art (Q214867) | 3611 | 457 | 131 | 3023 | 4.2% | 49 | 922 | 5.0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art (Q510324) | 3193 | 527 | 94 | 2572 | 3.5% | 59 | 1082 | 5.2% |
| National Portrait Gallery (Q238587) | 3065 | 1277 | 130 | 1658 | 7.3% | 76 | 624 | 10.9% |
| private collection (Q768717) | 3009 | 104 | 218 | 2687 | 7.5% | 137 | 587 | 18.9% |
| National Gallery of Victoria (Q1464509) | 2963 | 213 | 379 | 2371 | 13.8% | 136 | 905 | 13.1% |
| Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Q1471477) | 2810 | 180 | 46 | 2584 | 1.7% | 37 | 921 | 3.9% |
| Kunsthistorisches Museum (Q95569) | 2406 | 529 | 14 | 1863 | 0.7% | 9 | 663 | 1.3% |
| Nationalmuseum (Q842858) | 2384 | 272 | 146 | 1966 | 6.9% | 54 | 763 | 6.6% |
| Art Institute of Chicago (Q239303) | 2334 | 278 | 144 | 1912 | 7.0% | 88 | 954 | 8.4% |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Q1641836) | 2227 | 532 | 241 | 1454 | 14.2% | 102 | 938 | 9.8% |
| Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Q4819492) | 2225 | 72 | 335 | 1818 | 15.6% | 156 | 652 | 19.3% |
| Groninger Museum (Q1542668) | 2193 | 537 | 76 | 1580 | 4.6% | 29 | 465 | 5.9% |
| Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Q924335) | 2185 | 69 | 145 | 1971 | 6.9% | 44 | 471 | 8.5% |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Q1952033) | 2173 | 399 | 397 | 1377 | 22.4% | 182 | 577 | 24.0% |
| Amsterdam Museum (Q1820897) | 2104 | 328 | 45 | 1731 | 2.5% | 19 | 624 | 3.0% |
| Centraal Museum (Q260913) | 2071 | 237 | 186 | 1648 | 10.1% | 61 | 609 | 9.1% |
| Museum of Modern Art (Q188740) | 2045 | 11 | 215 | 1819 | 10.6% | 118 | 719 | 14.1% |
| Yale Center for British Art (Q6352575) | 2045 | 215 | 44 | 1786 | 2.4% | 24 | 572 | 4.0% |
| Museo del Prado (Q160112) | 2026 | 239 | 10 | 1777 | 0.6% | 5 | 437 | 1.1% |
| Indianapolis Museum of Art (Q1117704) | 2015 | 268 | 166 | 1581 | 9.5% | 110 | 889 | 11.0% |
| National Museum in Warsaw (Q153306) | 1996 | 191 | 52 | 1753 | 2.9% | 21 | 836 | 2.5% |
| Fries Museum (Q848313) | 1979 | 532 | 113 | 1334 | 7.8% | 23 | 320 | 6.7% |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Q1416890) | 1967 | 593 | 68 | 1306 | 4.9% | 56 | 823 | 6.4% |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Q1565911) | 1952 | 639 | 110 | 1203 | 8.4% | 63 | 746 | 7.8% |
| Frans Hals Museum (Q574961) | 1924 | 463 | 16 | 1445 | 1.1% | 12 | 307 | 3.8% |
| National Portrait Gallery of Sweden (Q2817221) | 1811 | 982 | 92 | 737 | 11.1% | 27 | 224 | 10.8% |
| Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Q915603) | 1800 | 618 | 236 | 946 | 20.0% | 71 | 329 | 17.8% |
| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880) | 1711 | 157 | 83 | 1471 | 5.3% | 55 | 712 | 7.2% |
| Department of Paintings of the Louvre (Q3044768) | 1675 | 52 | 43 | 1580 | 2.6% | 25 | 635 | 3.8% |
| Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (Q28045665) | 1625 | 1371 | 1 | 253 | 0.4% | 1 | 142 | 0.7% |
| Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Q460889) | 1613 | 201 | 96 | 1316 | 6.8% | 24 | 263 | 8.4% |
| Autonoom Gemeentebedrijf Museum Leuven (Q2362660) | 1564 | 573 | 18 | 973 | 1.8% | 10 | 262 | 3.7% |
| The Phillips Collection (Q578485) | 1559 | 17 | 218 | 1324 | 14.1% | 81 | 422 | 16.1% |
| Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Q861252) | 1545 | 390 | 15 | 1140 | 1.3% | 7 | 319 | 2.1% |
| Dordrechts Museum (Q2874177) | 1407 | 168 | 36 | 1203 | 2.9% | 26 | 386 | 6.3% |
Gendergap in properties "Authority control"
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One type of work about women is a Wikipedia biography, so here is a measurement of the current standings regarding biographies according to Wikidata queries on authority control properties. Help reduce the number of women items with external ids that are missing occupations here: Wikidata:WikiProject Women/Women with external ids without occupation
| Property on Wikidata matched 29-Oct-2016 | male | female | %female |
|---|---|---|---|
| ?item wdt:P21 wd:Q6581097. ?item wdt:P214 ?db1. | Q6581097 | Q6581072 | |
| BBC Your Paintings artist (1367) | 11338 | 1386 | 10.89% |
| Commons category (P373) | 214181 | 49107 | 18.65% |
| Commons Creator page (P1472) | 20982 | 1308 | 5.87% |
| Oxford Biography Index Number (P1415) | 52720 | 6450 | 10.90% |
| ULAN identifier (P245) | 52775 | 5478 | 9.40% |
| RKDartists (P650) | 38918 | 4732 | 10.84% |
| VIAF identifier (P214) | 721951 | 128548 | 15.11% |
| GND identifier (P227) | 306515 | 49962 | 14.02% |
| LCAuth identifier (P244) | 264285 | 48465 | 15.50% |
| ISNI (P213) | 250987 | 44675 | 15.11% |
| Property on Wikidata matched 11-Feb-2016 | male | female | %female |
| CLAIM[1367] AND CLAIM[373] etc. in Wikidata query | CLAIM[21:6581097] | CLAIM[21:6581072] | |
| BBC Your Paintings artist (1367) | 9707 | 959 | 8.99% |
| Commons category (P373) | 186666 | 42519 | 18.55% |
| Commons Creator page (P1472) | 16135 | 843 | 4.97% |
| Oxford Biography Index Number (P1415) | 51856 | 6303 | 10.84% |
| ULAN identifier (P245) | 49614 | 5108 | 9.33% |
| RKDartists (P650) | 36880 | 4660 | 11.22% |
| VIAF identifier (P214) | 680131 | 120630 | 15.06% |
| GND identifier (P227) | 278325 | 45117 | 13.95% |
| LCAuth identifier (P244) | 241684 | 43336 | 15.20% |
| ISNI (P213) | 230476 | 40091 | 14.82% |
| Property on Wikidata matched 6-Dec-2015 | male | female | %female |
| CLAIM[1367] AND CLAIM[373] etc. in Wikidata query | CLAIM[21:6581097] | CLAIM[21:6581072] | |
| BBC Your Paintings artist (1367) | 8469 | 794 | 8.6% |
| Commons category (P373) | 182133 | 41355 | 18.5% |
| Commons Creator page (P1472) | 15975 | 826 | 4.9% |
| Oxford Biography Index Number (P1415) | 51822 | 6299 | 10.8% |
| ULAN identifier (P245) | 45185 | 4446 | 9.0% |
| RKDartists (P650) | 32188 | 4014 | 11.1% |
| VIAF identifier (P214) | 673482 | 119048 | 15.0% |
| GND identifier (P227) | 273717 | 44220 | 13.9% |
| LCAuth identifier (P244) | 237370 | 42396 | 15.2% |
| ISNI (P213) | 226484 | 39261 | 14.8% |
| Property on Wikidata matched 14-sep-2015 | male | female | %female |
| CLAIM[1367] AND CLAIM[373] etc. in Wikidata query | CLAIM[21:6581097] | CLAIM[21:6581072] | |
| BBC Your Paintings artist (1367) | 7963 | 726 | 8.4% |
| Commons category (P373) | 148579 | 33529 | 18.4% |
| Commons Creator page (P1472) | 15806 | 813 | 4.9% |
| Oxford Biography Index Number (P1415) | 51284 | 6256 | 10.9% |
| ULAN identifier (P245) | 40233 | 3890 | 8.8% |
| RKDartists (P650) | 28080 | 3590 | 11.3% |
| VIAF identifier (P214) | 664724 | 116771 | 14.9% |
| GND identifier (P227) | 266022 | 42680 | 13.8% |
| LCAuth identifier (P244) | 228720 | 40375 | 15.0% |
| ISNI (P213) | 220641 | 37883 | 14.7% |
Gendergap parent properties
[edit]Property uses father (P22) and mother (P25) (generally updated daily)
| Total | male | female | %female | gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1799940 | 1107144 | 692796 | 38.5 | 414348 |
Gap based on current property use and items that could be created based on notability criteria, if all uses were on items with instance of (P31)=human (Q5).
Gendergap per language wiki (content with gender set to male vs. female)
[edit]There are lots of caveats to be take into account by looking at this list. This is not 100% human. Also, number of articles overall is not an indication of a project's similarity to an encyclopedia in that language (look at the total number of male+female articles in say Waray-Waray (warwiki). However, for what it's worth, clearly the percentages of female gendered content are slightly better as one moves northwards in Europe from Greek to Norwegian, and then to Korean and Japanese. See also here
| Measuring gender on Wikidata 6-Dec-2015 | male | female | %female |
| CLAIM[enwiki] or CLAIM[nlwiki] etc. in Wikidata query | CLAIM[21:6581097] | CLAIM[21:6581072] | |
| gender only (see also here) | 2356924 | 448584 | 16.0% |
| claim[arwiki] | 53378 | 9031 | 14.5% |
| claim[cawiki] | 92176 | 13151 | 12.5% |
| claim[cebwiki] | 647 | 118 | 15.4% |
| claim[cswiki] | 72709 | 13607 | 15.8% |
| claim[dewiki] | 502221 | 89946 | 15.2% |
| claim[elwiki] | 27041 | 3819 | 12.4% |
| claim[enwiki] | 1112419 | 212778 | 16.1% |
| claim[eswiki] | 228847 | 47410 | 17.2% |
| claim[fawiki] | 69062 | 17752 | 20.4% |
| claim[fiwiki] | 101672 | 21883 | 17.7% |
| claim[frwiki] | 388628 | 72456 | 15.7% |
| claim[huwiki] | 67099 | 10815 | 13.9% |
| claim[idwiki] | 33994 | 6900 | 16.9% |
| claim[itwiki] | 250646 | 43957 | 14.9% |
| claim[jawiki] | 166622 | 47147 | 22.1% |
| claim[kowiki] | 42339 | 12856 | 23.3% |
| claim[mkwiki] | 9092 | 1393 | 13.3% |
| claim[mswiki] | 8833 | 1925 | 17.9% |
| claim[nlwiki] | 152878 | 30188 | 16.5% |
| claim[nowiki] | 100563 | 26412 | 20.8% |
| claim[plwiki] | 236666 | 43600 | 15.6% |
| claim[ptwiki] | 146420 | 29582 | 16.8% |
| claim[rowiki] | 36337 | 7713 | 17.5% |
| claim[ruwiki] | 266902 | 43085 | 13.9% |
| claim[shwiki] | 24532 | 4826 | 16.4% |
| claim[srwiki] | 24880 | 5677 | 18.6% |
| claim[svwiki] | 146502 | 36516 | 20.0% |
| claim[trwiki] | 45779 | 8827 | 16.2% |
| claim[ukwiki] | 87731 | 13748 | 13.5% |
| claim[viwiki] | 17192 | 3823 | 18.2% |
| claim[warwiki] | 2620 | 385 | 12.8% |
| claim[zhwiki] | 94492 | 20610 | 17.9% |
| Measuring gender on Wikidata 30-sep-2015 | male | female | %female |
| CLAIM[enwiki] or CLAIM[nlwiki] etc. in Wikidata query | CLAIM[21:6581097] | CLAIM[21:6581072] | |
| gender only | 2305867 | 435772 | 15.9% |
| claim[arwiki] | 49660 | 8216 | 14.2% |
| claim[cawiki] | 87528 | 12213 | 12.2% |
| claim[cebwiki] | 648 | 124 | 16.1% |
| claim[cswiki] | 71016 | 13317 | 15.8% |
| claim[dewiki] | 496056 | 88765 | 15.2% |
| claim[elwiki] | 26312 | 3718 | 12.4% |
| claim[enwiki] | 1098719 | 209060 | 16.0% |
| claim[eswiki] | 225337 | 46238 | 17.0% |
| claim[fawiki] | 67507 | 17222 | 20.3% |
| claim[fiwiki] | 100638 | 21640 | 17.7% |
| claim[frwiki] | 383939 | 71314 | 15.7% |
| claim[huwiki] | 66216 | 10682 | 13.9% |
| claim[idwiki] | 33277 | 6782 | 16.9% |
| claim[itwiki] | 250646 | 43957 | 14.9% |
| claim[jawiki] | 165280 | 46848 | 22.1% |
| claim[kowiki] | 41008 | 12628 | 23.5% |
| claim[mkwiki] | 8857 | 1314 | 12.9% |
| claim[mswiki] | 8482 | 1870 | 18.1% |
| claim[nlwiki] | 151699 | 29869 | 16.5% |
| claim[nowiki] | 99447 | 26063 | 20.8% |
| claim[plwiki] | 233117 | 42984 | 15.6% |
| claim[ptwiki] | 142601 | 28819 | 16.8% |
| claim[rowiki] | 34895 | 7487 | 17.7% |
| claim[ruwiki] | 260016 | 41816 | 13.9% |
| claim[shwiki] | 23788 | 4707 | 16.5% |
| claim[srwiki] | 23705 | 5509 | 18.9% |
| claim[svwiki] | 145263 | 36240 | 20.0% |
| claim[trwiki] | 44746 | 8528 | 16.0% |
| claim[ukwiki] | 85300 | 13420 | 13.6% |
| claim[viwiki] | 16880 | 3734 | 18.1% |
| claim[warwiki] | 2612 | 384 | 12.8% |
| claim[zhwiki] | 93030 | 20462 | 18.0% |