I just noticed I wrote "to say the least" and "needs a lot of work" multiple times.
My brain is melting.... :) -Sarah On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...I went through....in what took weeks, and Wikidata'd the heck out of > everyone on this list. > > The worst articles, the one's that need a lot of work, are the bottom > half, for sure. The funniest to read is the Gisele Bundchen article. It > needs a lot of work...to say the least and doesn't seem to be written by > someone with a fashion background, to say the least. > > The last half have articles that just seem like they were written by PR > firms at times. My favorite take from the Bundchen article is: > > "In 2008 Bündchen and Brady dished out turkey and all the trimmings > unannounced to over 400 job trainees in Roxbury Massachusetts for Goodwill > Industries International" > > HA HA! Dishing it out.. > > I have now read all 100 articles. Shakira is my new favorite celebrity and > Adriana Huffington is good at plagiarizing. And there are some REALLY rich > women in China. > > -Sarah > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> > wrote: > >> Done! All the stubs, at least. A couple of thoughts: >> >> a) As expected, most of the stubs weren't :-). BLPs are not my forte, >> but I'd say there's nine at most, and two or three of those are >> marginal to be uprated. >> >> [This is a pretty systemic problem with our talkpage ratings and stub >> tags: as Risker says, they get very stale. The sheer labour that would >> be required to keep them up-to-date on a systematic basis is >> daunting...] >> >> b) Lots of mid-range start/C mediocrity as is so often the case with >> Wikipedia, lots of it with a reasonable amount of content but needing >> some hacking around to get into shape >> >> c) If anyone is looking for a weekend project and is comfortable with >> political BLPs, I'd say Helen Clark is able to be pushed to GA with a >> bit of polishing and tidying, and Michelle Bachelet likewise. 10% of >> the list properly-reviewed would be nothing to sniff at. >> >> (Bachelet has an odd gap in that the article doesn't seem to have >> anything from her current presidency, but otherwise it's quite >> well-structured and not overly recentist, which is unusual for a >> politician's biography!). >> >> Andrew. >> >> On 17 June 2014 02:01, Toby Hudson <tob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Andrew, >> > Absolutely! Please do. >> > Yes, it was nice to see some FA and GAs in the mix. Maybe we should >> compare >> > a list of 100 most powerful men? >> > Toby >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk >> > >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Stub tags are notoriously bad for this (I've just rerated half a dozen >> >> of these; Toby, are you happy for me to update the list?) >> >> >> >> On the other hand, we can take away a somewhat positive message from >> >> this as well: >> >> >> >> Two articles are FA and 6 are GA/equivalent. Across enwiki as a whole, >> >> approximately 0.6% of articles are FA or GA class. So this subset of >> >> articles is perhaps ten times better than the average... >> >> >> >> Andrew. >> >> >> >> On 16 June 2014 15:06, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > While I will agree that many of those articles could use significant >> >> > improvement, I wouldn't take the assessments all that seriously; a >> lot >> >> > of >> >> > those articles have not been assessed in many years, despite >> intervening >> >> > improvements. >> >> > >> >> > Risker >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On 16 June 2014 08:58, Toby Hudson <tob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I've just wikified this in my userspace if anyone wants to quickly >> >> >> check >> >> >> out our articles on these women. The good news is that we have an >> >> >> article >> >> >> for each of them. The bad news is that article quality is pretty >> grim >> >> >> if >> >> >> these are truly the 100 most powerful women. >> >> >> >> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:99of9/100powerwomen >> >> >> >> >> >> Toby/99of9 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> This is a pretty impressive showing for someone just 4 weeks into >> the >> >> >>> job: being named to the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women: >> >> >>> http://www.forbes.com/profile/lila-tretikov/ >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Note that increasing diversity is, according to the brief article, >> a >> >> >>> top >> >> >>> priority. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Risker/Anne >> >> >>> >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> >>> Gendergap mailing list >> >> >>> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Gendergap mailing list >> >> >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Gendergap mailing list >> >> > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> - Andrew Gray >> >> andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Gendergap mailing list >> >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gendergap mailing list >> > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > > -- > > Sarah Stierch > > ----- > > Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. > > www.sarahstierch.com > -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com
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