Sarah you are such a champ! Thank you for slogging through all this!
> On Jun 28, 2014, at 11:19 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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