i would nominate sadads, he's the digital humanist but his plate is full maybe a small grant for a grad student of his choosing or roping in womeninred / women in green
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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