On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:05 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
I've made an attempt at doing this by using a PD Australian book that included female bios. Of the 21 female bios I could find, 10 didnt appear to have have a WP bio. ;-(
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908...
I see two women at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedia_art... and many more in the pages at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:DNBFooter
The full text of DNB is available on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB/Djvu_files
Maybe we could try to do something like Stuartyeates has been doing for Kiwis in general specifically targeting women? :) I've asked him if he could possibly use it to semi-automatically allow me to create articles about players in the WNBL (automatically notable) who do not yet have articles. His program involves having a database, firefox and grease monkey attachment he's made. I believe a few of the stubs he's made this way have been taken to DYK. Details of what he's doing can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2012/Contents/Au..., http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2012/Contents/Aus....