Hoi,
There are only 264 people identified as Radcliffe alumni. Someone did a job
on adding this fact to Wikidata so I started off with some 250 already. I
completed the list. The category information on Wikidata includes a query
that shows you the current number.. There is a similar query on the Harvars
alumni category by the way.
As to your proposal to have a list and idenfity the Wikidata items from
them.. Given that ToolScript does JavaScript, it should be doable. I would
ask Magnus to write an example that I could copy and change..
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 April 2014 08:28, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gerard,
Actually historically speaking, there will be fewer Harvard alumni as
women because they graduated from Radcliffe, not Harvard, no?
Anyway, how about a trade - I will send you all of my male-female data
with Wikipedia entity names, and you send me back the Q numbers? Or
can you only accept data with Q numbers as a field?
Jane
2014-04-21 7:58 GMT+02:00, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
I blogged about the issue of sex ratios on Wikidata [1]. The experiment I
did with Harvard alumni was to get some idea about the number of humans
who
were not yet known as human. I added a
substantial number of them to have
an item for each entry in the category on the English Wikipedia. I assume
that as a group they are relatively well covered; they are ivy league and
some of the best and brightest studied there. When you look at the sex
ratio for the Harvard educated, you will find that it is worse than for
the
general population. I suppose it is an indication
of the amount of items
that still need to be identified as human.
Thanks,
Gerard
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-its-sex-ratio.html
On 21 April 2014 00:53, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To be blunt, Wikidata gains the quantitative quality I am looking for
when only
male and female
is added where applicable. Transgender issues
with respect are edge
cases.
Transgender issues are primarily raised because they're vitally
important for people today, but they're not the only issues.
Far more numerically superior are the issues of people writing under
other-gendered pseudonyms; that's a systemic problem, in the GND data
for example. "Lord Charles Albert" "Florian Wellesley" and
"Currer
Bell" were only outed as pseudonyms of Charlotte Brontë once she
achieved a certain level of fame. Modern analysis suggests that there
are probably thousands if not tens of thousands of other writers who
never achieved that level of fame and never had their pseudonyms
revealed. GND and similar library data commonly base their gender data
on nothing more than the apparent gender of the name on the cover page
(librarianship practice, unlike archival practise, takes such things
at face value). To take that librarianship practise out of context and
assert that that those thousands or tens of thousands of authors were
men (rather than just publishing under male or ambiguous names) isn't
going to get you sued, but that doesn't mean it's not the
white-washing of generations of women writers.
cheers
stuart
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