Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Metrics

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Totals at a glance

Year	Portion if applicable	Total	Daily average
2015	18 Jul – 31 Dec	11,711	70
2016		28,399	77
2017		28,271	77
2018		27,323	75
2019		27,207	75
2020		30,119	82
2021		26,780	73
2022		18,893	52
2023		17,925	49
2024		20,142	55
2025		18,854	52
Grand total		255,624

Updated: Rosiestep (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Summary of Women in Red statistics from main page

Date	Women	Bios	Percentage	Increase in % for year	Increase in women for year	Increase in bios for year	Percentage for year
30-Sep-2015	205,814	1,299,047	15.84%
1-Jan-2017	240,445	1,432,907	16.78%	0.94%	34,631	133,860	25.87%
1-Jan-2018	262,099	1,509,348	17.37%	0.58%	21,654	76,441	28.33%
31-Dec-2018	279,959	1,573,341	17.79%	0.43%	17,860	63,993	27.91%
30-Dec-2019	305,072	1,678,323	18.18%	0.38%	25,113	104,982	23.92%
11-Jan-2021	332,622	1,778,126	18.71%	0.53%	27,550	99,803	27.60%
3-Jan-2022	356,439	1,865,516	19.11%	0.40%	23,817	87,390	27.25%
2-Jan-2023	373,263	1,921,359	19.43%	0.32%	16,824	55,843	30.13%
1-Jan-2024	390,207	1,978,991	19.72%	0.29%	16,944	57,632	29.40%
30-Dec-2024	408,840	2,042,975	20.01%	0.29%	18,633	63,984	29.12%
31-Dec-2025	427,004	2,107,089	20.27%	0.26%	18,164	64,114	28.33%
Total				4.43%	221,190	808,042	27.37%

Notes:

In October 2014 English Wikipedia had 1,445,021 biographical articles, according to a paper referenced on the project's main page. The number of biographies reported by Humaniki only caught up with this figure in 2017, which suggests that Humaniki information was incomplete until at least then.

The September 2015 figure was reported here.

The figure of 20% (408,183 women out of 2,040,570 biographies) was achieved in the 16 December 2024 update. TSventon (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Further background on metrics

As a result of figures presented by Humaniki, we keep posting on the main Women in Red page the percentage of women's biographies on the English version of Wikipedia. Increases are steady but marginal: for example from July 2022 to July 2023, the percentage has risen from around 19.3% to around 19.6%.

Thanks to an analysis presented by Andrew Gray on the WIR talk page, it certainly looks as if the number of men and women involved in sports has a significant influence on the statistics for women. A detailed account of Gray's work is presented in "Gender and BLPs on Wikipedia, redux", which he published on 2 August 2023.

The two lists below show that biographies of living people (BLPs) born in recent years are approximately 50% female if data on all categories of athletes are excluded. By contrast, the equivalent overall figures (including athletes) are only around 25%. As a result, biographies of very large numbers of male sportspeople seem to be responsible for the huge difference. Andrew Gray's detailed lists below document how figures for BLPs by year of birth have evolved over the years:

Overall development of BLPs since the 1920s for all biographies

Missing birth year BLPs – 150,574, of which 53,355 female – 35.4%
1920s birth BLPs – 5,096, of which 1,325 female – 26.0%
1930s birth BLPs – 39,055, of which 7,086 female – 18.1%
1940s birth BLPs – 95,602, of which 18,495 female – 19.3%
1950s birth BLPs – 128,518, of which 27,172 female – 21.1%
1960s birth BLPs – 145,300, of which 33,390 female – 23.0%
1970s birth BLPs – 150,539, of which 37,893 female – 25.2%
1980s birth BLPs – 171,072, of which 42,880 female – 25.1%
1990s birth BLPs – 150,880, of which 36,944 female – 24.5%
2000s birth BLPs – 30,042, of which 7,542 female – 25.1%

Development of BLPs since the 1920s for biographies excluding athletes

If we discount all athletes using the infobox method, the results are:

Missing birth year BLPs – 140,177, of which 51,021 female – 36.4%
1920s birth BLPs – 4,321, of which 1,228 female – 28.4%
1930s birth BLPs – 28,978, of which 6,161 female – 21.2%
1940s birth BLPs – 73,095, of which 16,566 female – 22.7%
1950s birth BLPs – 95,893, of which 23,644 female – 24.7%
1960s birth BLPs – 96,175, of which 26,632 female – 27.8%
1970s birth BLPs – 81,682, of which 27,562 female – 33.7%
1980s birth BLPs – 58,078, of which 24,816 female – 42.7%
1990s birth BLPs – 23,281, of which 11,754 female – 50.5%
2000s birth BLPs – 2,850, of which 1,539 female – 54.0%

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