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Playing cards on Twitter

So this happened. Yesterday, Andy Mabbett asked me on Twitter for a new feature of Reasonator: Twitter cards, for small previews of Wikidata items on Twitter. After some initial hesitation (for technical reasons), I started playing with the idea in a test tweet (and several replies to myself), using Andy as the guinea pig item: […]

Sex and artists

Now that I got your attention … Prompted by a post from Jane Darnell, I thought to quickly run some gender-related stats on artists in Wikidata. Specifically, the number of articles on Wikipedias for artists with a specific property, by gender. First, RKDartists (at the moment of writing, 21,859 male and 2,801 female artists on […]