You're right Lennart! It looks like I was limiting the query to only poems which had the inception date set. I re-ran the queries and got:
Poems by women: 1542 Poems by men: 20072 Ratio: 1:13 Poems by women with articles on English Wikipedia: 162 Poems by men with articles on English Wikipedia: 992 Ratio: 1:6 Those numbers look a bit more reasonable :) But still plenty of room for improvement! Thanks for double-checking my work. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson < l_guldbrands...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Interesting. Thanks! > > > I am not saying the results are skewed, but there are lots of poems that > are in Wikisource that lack Wikidata entries. For instance, this list of > Emily Dickinson poems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > List_of_Emily_Dickinson_poems > > The first poem in her template is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Success_is_Counted_Sweetes > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_is_Counted_Sweetest>which has its > own Wikidata entry: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7632593 This poem was > not listed on the Wikidata query > poems by women: http://tinyurl.com/kq4bq8x nor on the query poems by > women on English Wikipedia, so all poems are not counted as they should be. > > This is not to say that there is not probably a poem gap (wonderful term). > Just that we should check the numbers before we go public with them. > > Best wishes, > > Lennart Guldbrandsson > > 070 - 207 80 05 > http://www.*elementx*.se <http://www.elementx.se> > *Skriv som ett proffs <http://www.elementx.se/skriv-som-ett-proffs/>* - > min senaste bok > > Kommande böcker <http://www.elementx.se/om-lennart/kommande-bocker/> | > Tidigare > böcker <http://www.elementx.se/tidigare-bocker/> > Få regelbundna skrivtips direkt till din inkorg > <http://elementx.us7.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=ab2080465c6cd11b5b253f940&id=8a2b974a62> > > @aliasHannibal <http://twitter.com/AliasHannibal> - på Twitter > > "*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri > tillgång till **världens samlade kunskap* > <http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida>*. Det är vårt mål.*" > Jimmy Wales > ------------------------------ > *Från:* Gendergap <gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> för Ryan > Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > *Skickat:* den 11 maj 2017 07:16:26 > *Till:* Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects > *Ämne:* [Gendergap] the poem gap > > Just out of curiosity, I used the Wikidata Query Service to see how many > poems by women are in Wikidata. The answer is 5. If you do the same query > for men, you get 255. If you restrict the queries to poems that have > articles on English Wikipedia you get 1 and 57, i.e. according to Wikidata > there is only one article about a poem by a woman on English Wikipedia. > This probably isn't accurate, but it's still a surprising result. While I > understand that poetry (and writing in general) has historically been the > domain of men, does a 50 to 1 ratio really reflect the historical reality? > Anyway, just something to chew on. > > If you want to run the queries yourself (or modify them) here they are: > > Poems by women: http://tinyurl.com/kq4bq8x > Poems by men: http://tinyurl.com/m7mqynq > > Poems by women with articles on English Wikipedia: > http://tinyurl.com/mzj6wak > Poems by men with articles on English Wikipedia: > http://tinyurl.com/mnmsnkl > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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