On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, J Hayes <slowki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> maybe we should do an literature editathon? > Perhaps it's time for a Literature+Feminism editathon (to spin off from the Art+Feminism theme). > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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