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Table 1 The largest 20 language editions of Wikipedia

From: Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

Language

Fraction of women

Overlap with English edition

Biographies

English (en)

0.155

893,380

Italian (it)

0.151

0.986

134,122

Deutsch (de)

0.132

0.995

102,233

French (fr)

0.136

0.966

93,400

Polish (pl)

0.158

0.986

69,531

Spanish (es)

0.182

0.980

66,067

Russian (ru)

0.158

0.988

64,233

Portuguese (pt)

0.185

0.989

44,793

Dutch (nl)

0.194

0.993

38,659

Japanese (ja)

0.184

0.991

31,033

Hungarian (hu)

0.179

0.999

18,074

Bulgarian (bg)

0.149

1.000

16,850

Korean (ko)

0.226

0.994

15,921

Turkish (tr)

0.175

0.982

14,399

Indonesian (id)

0.151

0.987

12,401

Arabic (ar)

0.199

0.787

12,030

Czech (cs)

0.156

1.000

10,765

Catalan (ca)

0.183

0.995

7,721

Greek (el)

0.145

0.806

6,748

Basque (eu)

0.179

0.987

3,449

  1. The number of biographies, proportion of biographies about women and the biography overlap with the English edition are depicted. One can see that the fraction of women on average around 17% and the average overlap with English is 97%.