Introduction

WikiPeopleStats is a project to measure the gender gap on Wikimedia wikis

Live: https://wikipeoplestats.org/

Docs: Coming soon

API Docs: Coming soon

Supported projects

• Wikidata
• Wikipedia (341)
• Wikiquote (97)
• Wikisource (80)

Update period

Initially, there is no stipulated update period, that means that I run the bot to update the information whenever I can and at the same time QLever updates its dump which is approximately every 3-4 days

Data source

WikiPeopleStats use QLever API to extract the need info, i decided not to use it because the Blazegraph engine that Wikidata Query Service uses is very obsolete or incapable of processing the volume of data that is extracted and despite using the QLever demo since there is no official instance of Wikidata using QLever, it has helped me to continue working on the project.

Data usage

My project stores the following parameters in the database

• Wikidata Item ID
• Gender (P21)
• Birth date (P569)
• Death date (P570)
• Country (P17) taken from birth place (P19)

Note

The idea is to fully automate the update soon, if you want to contribute to this functionality I am willing to work on it and receive that help.

Requirements

Technical

• MariaDB 11.4 or MySQL 8.0
• Memcached 1.6
• Apache 2.4
• PHP 8.4
• Python 3.13 (bot usage)

Hardware

• 8 GB RAM (Webservice + Cache)
• 8 GB RAM (Database)
• 4 vCPU
• 50 GB Disk

Licence

Copyright © 2024 Daniel Yepez Garces.

WikiPeopleStats source code is licensed under GPL 3.0 or later.