Calculate baselines for KR WE2.1/KE1: By the end of Q2, support organizers, contributors, and institutions with specific tools, insights, & organizing approaches that increase the coverage of quality content in key topic areas [TBD] by X% per wiki.
Key topic areas & Target Languages
Since we can't measure/narrow down to sub-topics such as Biographies & Women's Health, Climate & Sustainability, I used the content_gap_metrics database to access quality articles in different categories for a snapshot for February 2024 for some wikis. referring the queries from movement metrics.
| Project | Total Articles | Quality articles female | Quality articles Latin America and Caribbean | Quality articles Middle East & North Africa | Quality articles Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Overall | 335,800,000 | 375,097 (0.1%) | 62,041 (<0.1%) | 38,552 (<0.1%) | 29,602 (<0.1%) |
| English Wikipedia | 6,789,000 | 103,365 (1.5%) | 10,031 (0.14%) | 27,520 (0.4%) | 38,780 (0.57%) |
| Spanish Wikipedia | 1,934,000 | 25,177 (1.3%) | 19,271 (1%) | 6,102 (0.3%) | 6,263 (0.3%) |
| Portugues Wikipedia | 1,119,700 | 9,832 (0.9%) | 7,059 (0.6%) | 4,539 (0.4%) | 1,129 (0.1%) |
| Indonesia Wikipedia | 685,561 | 3,625 (0.5%) | 314 (<0.1%) | 1,717 (0.25%) | 1,085 (0.2%) |
Number of quality articles on female topics in Indonesia Wikipedia, to see the growth of quality articles through campaigns:
| Month | Total Articles | Female Quality articles | % Female Quality Articles |
| 2024-01 | 681,335 | 3,614 | 0.53% |
| 2024-02 | 685,561 | 3,631 | 0.53% |
| 2024-03 | 688,901 | 3,656 | 0.53% |
| 2024-04 | 692,004 | 3,677 | 0.53% |
We looked at monthly net new quality content in topic areas and target languages' Wikipedia as baselines. The data is from December 2023 - May 2024. Refer to this notebook for detailed queries.
For Biodiversity topic area, we used ORES model's taxonomy and looked for sub-topics STEM. Biology AND STEM.Earth and environment to find quality articles. We found a monthly average of 24 net new quality content in the past 6 months in target wikis (detailed data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jsmp7m5Lan9lEAVrhId8sHWIZDenm4yYeTeo8fmpYJY/edit?gid=2100049438#gid=2100049438).
For Women’s Biographies and Women's Health Topic Areas, we use the content_gap_metrics.by_category dataset and look for categories of female and cisgender female to calculate the number of quality articles. We found a monthly average of 157 Women’s Biographies and 25 Women's Health net new quality content in the past 6 months in target wikis. (detailed data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jsmp7m5Lan9lEAVrhId8sHWIZDenm4yYeTeo8fmpYJY/edit?gid=2006222837#gid=2006222837)
In conclusion, there are, on average, 205 new quality articles each month in key topic areas of the target language Wikipedias. As discussed, we aim for a 10% increase from this average, which equates to an additional 20.5 quality articles per month (123 more quality articles over six months).
Updating the baselines with June 2024 data.
For Biodiversity topic area, we found a monthly average of 25 net new quality content in the past 7 months in target wikis (detailed data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jsmp7m5Lan9lEAVrhId8sHWIZDenm4yYeTeo8fmpYJY/edit?gid=2100049438#gid=2100049438).
For Women’s Biographies and Women's Health Topic Areas, we found a monthly average of 180 Women’s Biographies and 24 Women's Health net new quality content in the past 7 months in target wikis. (detailed data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jsmp7m5Lan9lEAVrhId8sHWIZDenm4yYeTeo8fmpYJY/edit?gid=2006222837#gid=2006222837)
In conclusion, there are, on average, 229 new quality articles each month in key topic areas of the target language Wikipedias. As discussed, we aim for a 10% increase from this average, which equates to an additional 22.9 quality articles per month (138 more quality articles over six months).