Yes, that is a possible approach John. But I was speaking about comparing all the biographies between different Wikipedias and discover missing females bios in each one.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:44 AM, emijrp <emijrp@gmail.com> wrote:I've made an attempt at doing this by using a PD Australian book that
> ..
> By the way, I'm interested in searching for missing female biographies
> comparing Wikipedia biographical corpora in an automated way and make some
> lists of red links. I will think about 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
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John Vandenberg
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