Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap

Given Mother's Day coming up, note that Julia Ward Howe's "Mother's Day Proclamation" poem does have an article. So there is some good news! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation ___ Gendergap mailing list

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projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap "An Obstacle" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should definitely have an article. http://blog.thereader.org.uk/2015/06/08/featured-poem-an-obstacle-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman/ Marie From: Gendergap [gend

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f of danc...@frontiernet.net [danc...@frontiernet.net] Sent: 12 May 2017 03:05 To: J Hayes; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap >yes, >i have been writing poetry

Re: [Gendergap] the poem gap

>yes, >i have been writing poetry bios for a while >(and there is a bias in the historical data) >and transcribing on wikisource tends to be by book and not individual poem >(that tends to be an older practice) >the oclc metadata tends to be by book, so we may need some hand curation, >since we

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great i nominate you for team leader start an idea at idea lab https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab and go for a small grant of less than 2000 there may be a critical mass of supporters out there cheers On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Amanda Menking wrote: > I'd be

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I'd be happy to work with English majors and MLIS students at the University of Washington. I'm a former English major and teacher myself. :) On May 11, 2017, at 7:39 PM, J Hayes > wrote: i would nominate sadads, he's the digital humanist but his

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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 wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, J Hayes

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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, J Hayes 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 >

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yes, i have been writing poetry bios for a while (and there is a bias in the historical data) and transcribing on wikisource tends to be by book and not individual poem (that tends to be an older practice) the oclc metadata tends to be by book, so we may need some hand curation, since we have

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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:

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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