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 >>>>> >>>>> 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 <[email protected]> för Ryan >>>>> Kaldari <[email protected]> >>>>> *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 >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, >>>>> please visit: >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gendergap mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, >>>> please visit: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gendergap mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >>> visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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