User:Emijrp/Systemic bias
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Inequalities Incomplete and biased knowledge |
Systemic bias, gaps and imbalances. Lots of them.
Summary
[edit]- #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
[edit]Number of males and females differences in communities.
Wikimedia Foundation wikis
[edit]- 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
- /Portuguese Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~20 men
- /Italian Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~40 men
- /Russian Wikipedia: 1 woman per ~13 men
- 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
[edit]Encyclopedias
[edit]Word occurences in several encyclopedias.
Encyclopedia | He | She |
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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:
Geography
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Global digital divide, language barrier Geographical bias
Imbalanced coverage of regions |
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Geonames4.png/220px-Geonames4.png)
Geographic topics coverage by region.
Geolocation
[edit]Earth
[edit]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 |
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Northern | 1,088,292 (90.64%) |
Southern | 112,324 (9.36%) |
Total = 1,200,616 (100%) |
Date: March 11, 2011.
Hemisphere | Points |
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Eastern | 562,923 (46.89%) |
Western | 637,693 (53.11%) |
Total = 1,200,616 (100%) |
Date: March 11, 2011.
Solar System
[edit]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 |
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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
[edit]Word occurences in several encyclopedias.
Continents
[edit]Encyclopedia | Africa | America | Asia | Europe | Oceania |
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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
[edit]See also: Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Geography
Internet access worldwide
[edit]News
[edit]History
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Lack of historians, recentism Historical bias
Poor coverage of distant past |
Images
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Language
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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
[edit]Religion | Users | Followers (Millions) | Users/Followers (per million) |
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Atheists | 2,814 | 150 | 18.76 |
Buddhists | 311 | 400 | 0.78 |
Christians | 2,245 | 2000 | 1.12 |
Hinduists | 420 | 828 | 0.51 |
Jewish | 626 | 14 | 44.71 |
Muslims | 1,452 | 1570 | 0.92 |
Pagans | 164 | ? | ? |
Pastafarists | 590 | ? | ? |
More at Category:Wikipedians by religion
Encyclopedias
[edit]Word occurences in several encyclopedias.
Encyclopedia | Atheism | Buddhism | Christianity | Hinduism | Islam | Judaism |
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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 |
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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
[edit]External links
[edit]- http://wikipediasurvey.org
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
- meta:List of largest wikis
- http://strategy.wikimedia.org
- 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
- Mailing list messages
- Corpus
- Britannica 1911 29 volumes
- http://download.wikimedia.org - enwiki articles 2010-10-11
- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets