I think this is a great idea. Since research has shone that women's biographies are proportionately underrepresented on Wikipedia, lists of women in particular areas are a useful tool for people interested in writing biographies of women to fill in the gaps. It's also a great place to start for new editors (and we all want new editors!).
Someday these lists won't be necessary, I hope. But until then they are useful and fun as well. -VAL On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a good work Sarah. But I don't understand why those lists where women > are separated from men are needed. I think that the only reason is that > there are persons who would need to read only about "female chessplayers", > "female ...", etc. But in the same fashion, there are persons who need to > read only about "male chessplayers". > > We can see as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_men is less > populated than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_women Probably > you would say that the "male" version of that lists are the "regular" one. > But we can see that the female astronauts that are included here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_astronauts are also > here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_name (see ♀ symbol), > but there is no a "List of male astronauts". If we are going to take this > approach, we have to start lists for both gender, separated and joined. > > By the way, I'm interested in searching for missing female biographies > comparing Wikipedia biographical corpora in an automated way and make some > lists of red links. I will think about that. > > 2012/2/8 Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> A few of us came together on the WikiWomen's History Month page to create >> a "List of Lists of Women" on English Wikipedia. Plenty of red links >> throughout the lists included, and yes everything is covered involving >> women! Even women pirates... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_women >> >> I know we'd love to see a similar collection in other languages, and use >> them as tools for figuring out what other lists need to be created, but also >> what articles need to be made. >> >> Also, please take a look at our English WikiWomen's History Page: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month >> >> We have more events that have been added, so please get involved, online >> or offline! There are also discussions on the talk page. >> >> Looking forward to seeing some great things happen in March, >> >> Sarah >> >> -- >> Sarah Stierch >> Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow >> >>Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today<< >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
