Re: List membership - more women

Why fill out a form?

Should they just give you a URI? :)

On Monday, June 24, 2013, Barry Norton wrote:

> On 24/06/13 10:14, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
>>
>>  There are just over 1000 subscribers to the list (no gender figures
>> available for those). You can see from http://lists.w3.org/Archives/**
>> Public/public-lod/2013Jun/**author.html<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2013Jun/author.html>who the most vocal participants are.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
> If you like SPARQL you can achieve this using:
>
> $ curl -H "Accept:text/csv" --data-urlencode "query=PREFIX xsd:<
> http://www.w3.org/2001/**XMLSchema# <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>>
> SELECT ?creator (COUNT(?post) AS ?count) {<http://lists.w3.org/**
> Archives/Public/public-lod/**latest.rss<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/latest.rss>>
> <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#**container_of<http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#container_of>>
> ?post . ?post <http://purl.org/dc/elements/**1.1/creator<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator>>
> ?creator; <http://purl.org/dc/elements/**1.1/date<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date>>
> ?date . FILTER (xsd:dateTime(?date) > \"2013-06-01T00:00:00Z\"^^xsd:**dateTime)}
> GROUP BY ?creator ORDER BY DESC(?count)" euclid.sti2.org:8080/openrdf-**
> sesame/repositories/platform<http://euclid.sti2.org:8080/openrdf-sesame/repositories/platform>
>
> At the EUCLID review we had a nice Information Workbench front-end to this
> monitoring endpoint - I'd like to open this up in the coming days as I
> think most people would appreciate a barchart from a Web link, rather than
> a CSV from a command-line.
>
> That said, what I'd like to do is to send an email to each new poster and
> invite them to fill out a form with their confirmed preferred name,
> volunteered other identities (Twitter handle, etc.) and now I'm thinking
> gender.
>
> Would people find this very intrusive, or is that a worthwhile idea?
>
> Barry
>
>

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