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 <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:12 PM, J Hayes <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> 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 <
>>>> [email protected]> 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
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>>>>> *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
>>>>>
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