Using Observable to study gender diversity in Wikipedia articles

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We know that there is a gender diversity issue in Wikipedia. For instance, only 19% of biographies are about women in Wikipedia in English. In a collection of notebooks, I’ve designed developed new tools to measure gender diversity at the article level:

Those tools are useful to see if women and other minorised gender groups are represented in an article.

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Using the tool presented above, OpenSexism has collected weekly data about gender diversity in a selection of 26 Wikipedia articles.

Here is a notebook exploring the evolution of gender diversity from November 2021 to November 2022 : The Wednesday Index / PAC / Observable

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