User:Dsp13
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I'm a historian & writer based in the UK, currently working as a knowledge engineer for True Knowledge, a Cambridge-based company building internet & mobile question-answering technology. I started editing Wikipedia 7 July 2006. Pages I've started include Cedar Paul, Robert Leslie Ellis, John Grote, George Ballard and List of nineteenth-century periodicals. Many of my edits have involved adding humdrum categories - birth and death categories to biographical articles, or year of establishment to publications, schools, companies etc. I've written scripts to match wikipedia pages to library name authority records, the National Register of Archives and the ODNB. Using Template:Venn, I've added about 4,000 references, for Cambridge alumni, to ACAD, a recent online edition of Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses.
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[edit] People prominent in ODNB lacking individual articles in Wikipedia
From 14,000 or so matches made (as of June 2008) between wikipedia and ODNB:
Some particular classes of people are relatively less well-represented in Wikipedia than they are in ODNB. One way to see this is to use words in their short description in the publicly accessible index to the ODNB.
- Words correlated with relative under-represention (<10% in wikipedia): justice, headmistress, ejected, jesuit, quaker, topogragher, baron, friar, engraver, presbyterian, bookseller, clergyman
- Words correlated with relative over-represention (>50% in wikipedia): economist, astronomer, director, explorer, philosopher, broadcaster, physicist, canterbury, zoologist, conductor, cricketer, king, australia
Looking at those in ODNB with gender-specific Christian names (around 90%), women in ODNB are less likely (24%) than are men (27%) to be in wikipedia.
[edit] Women prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles
[edit] Quakers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles
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[edit] Catholics prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles
[edit] Booksellers prominent in ODNB without Wikipedia articles
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[edit] People prominent in NRA lacking individual articles in both Wikipedia and ODNB
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