可视化分析维基百科性别分布演变,揭示女性内容占比不足17%且长期增长缓慢。
Exploring Wikipedia Gender Diversity Over Time $\unicode{x2013}$ The Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD)
- 构建维基百科性别仪表板,整合多源数据动态追踪各职业类别的性别年龄分布。
- 女性条目仅占英文维基17%,但近20年持续增长;跨性别平均年龄呈下降趋势。
- 帮助编辑识别性别失衡领域,推动内容补全以促进平台性别平等。
维基百科编辑社区长期致力于实现性别平等目标。为实现此目标,有必要探究维基百科文章中性别差异的历史演变。本文提出维基百科性别仪表板(WGD),一个交互式工具,用于分析不同人物类别(如宇航员、政治家等)的性别分布与平均年龄随时间的变化。通过调用维基百科API、DBpedia和Wikidata接口,确保数据持续采集。利用Microsoft Power BI开发并部署至公共网站。分析显示,英文维基中女性条目仅占约17%,但近20年来稳步增长;同时,各性别群体的平均年龄均呈下降趋势。此外,大多数‘人物’类别仍以男性为主导。该工具可协助编辑识别性别代表性不足的领域,从而有目的地扩充相关条目,推动维基百科在性别覆盖上的更均衡发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The Wikipedia editors' community has been actively pursuing the intent of achieving gender equality. To that end, it is important to explore the historical evolution of underlying gender disparities in Wikipedia articles. This paper presents the Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD), a tool designed to enable the interaction with gender distribution data, including the average age in every subclass of individuals (i.e. Astronauts, Politicians, etc.) over the years. Wikipedia APIs, DBpedia, and Wikidata endpoints were used to query the data to ensure persistent data collection. The WGD was then created with Microsoft Power BI before being embedded on a public website. The analysis of the data available in the WGD found that female articles only represent around 17% of English Wikipedia, but it has been growing steadily over the last 20 years. Meanwhile, the average age across genders decreased over time. WGD also shows that most subclasses of `Person' are male-dominated. Wikipedia editors can make use of WGD to locate areas with marginalized genders in Wikipedia, and increase their efforts to produce more content providing coverage for those genders to achieve better gender equality in Wikipedia.
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