User:Emijrp/Systemic bias

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Systemic bias, gaps and imbalances. Lots of them.

Summary

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 * ': There are 1,200,616 geolocated points in English Wikipedia. 1,088,292 (%''') are located in the Northern Hemisphere, 112,324 (%) 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 % Northern–% Southern.
 * ': 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.
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 * : There are between 5000 and 10000 languages in the world but only 279 Wikipedias (–%).
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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. Details:

Biographies analysis:
 * http://reagle.org/joseph/2009/09/nwhp-women.html

Geography
Geographic topics coverage by region.

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

Date: March 11, 2011.

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 % Northern–% Southern. Date: March 11, 2011.

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

Encyclopedias
Word occurences in several encyclopedias.

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

News

 * n:Category:News articles by region

History

 * /Contemporary bias


 * Persondata

Language
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 (–%). So biased.

Questions:
 * How many people do not understand any Wikipedia?

Main Page
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
Religion topics coverage by religion.

English Wikipedia users
More at Category:Wikipedians by religion

Encyclopedias
Word occurences in several encyclopedias.
 * Turkish Wikipedia (2011-04-19): İslam (12359), Hıristiyanlık (2058), Hristiyanlık (480), Budizm (1030).

Political
See also: WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Politics

Meta bias
Date: March 11, 2011