On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:05 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)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_190…
I see two women at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedia_ar…
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/A…,
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2012/Contents/Au….
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