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.djvu

I see two women at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedia_articles/DNB,_people_prominent_in_ODNB
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/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report#Dictionary_of_New_Zealand_Biographyhttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report#New_Zealand .

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