http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Article_alerts
Right now there are 3 questionable AfD's and various nominations, etc.
Plus a bunch of Good article nominees and other listings.
Watch that page (or the relevant page in your language) and comment from
time to time so we can make sure at least some of our 9 or 13 or
whatever percent of wikiwomen gets represented. :-)
CM in DC
Hi everyone,
Forbes Magazine released their list of the world's 100 most powerful
women. Wikimedia Foundation's own Sue Gardner is #70! Very very cool :)
Congratulations Sue!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/08/22/the-worlds-100-most-p…
For fun, I made a not so glamorous list of the top 100 women and their
article quality, you can see it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch/100power
Starts win the award for the most, at 52. The three FA's are popular
culture icons (the Queen of England, Angelina Jolie and JK Rowling - the
latter Sue beat out on the list ;D ). Two of the top five are in that
area (...as is Sue's article). You'll also find a few red links, and who
knows what this list looks like in your preferred language or project.
A nice starting point for edit-a-thons, personal wiki-agendas, and
improvement.
-Sarah
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Having a cranky day. : /
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/tunisian-olympic-medalists-draw-…
one of several articles about female Tunisian Olympic medalists who
are
now being targeted by extremists in their own country. Articles about
women really, really matter for sport. Sport is often one of the most
visible ways to highlight and discuss problems in a country and the
sporting community discusses it loudly. Against what framework have rights
for women in Saudi Arabia been discussed recently? In sport. It drives the
narrative for women's rights around the globe.
This is one of the reasons why I work on articles about women's sports. It
allows for addressing systematic bias by highlighting these issues on a
global level. It connects to civil rights, health issues, education
issues, family issues, etc. It is a way to understand culture. And dang
it, it feels really good to improve articles about women in those areas.
We don't hear about Sudanese feminists, but we might hear about Sudanese
athletes. We don't hear about Cambodian women being abused sexually, but
we might hear about Cambodian sport women. Beyond that, it is an area
where it is easy to find allies of all genders to get involved because
sport is often a shared experience, where there is enough commonality that
people can connect with despite those gender differences.
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Hey folks -
AdaCamp report is out from the Ada Initiative. They are interested in
hosting another - preferably not in the US - in the upcoming year. So
keep your ears and eyes peeled:
http://adainitiative.org/2012/08/adacamp-dc-final-report-the-experience-pro…
-Sarah
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>>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today
<https://donate.wikimedia.org/><<
I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in en.Wikipedia, and
this week marks a major accomplishment for me in this area and for me as an
editor. [[Maya Angelou]] is now a featured article.
I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my very first
edit of it was early in my WP-editing career, in September 2007: [diff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&oldid=1588…].
It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of the time. When
I came across it, I realized that Angelou's work and life was sorely
underrepresented and not at all comprehensive, way before I came to
understand the gender gap in this project. I also realized that in order
to do the subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert, something
I definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very least, I
needed to read her six autobiographies, and while I was at it, write
articles about them. Only one article existed at the time: her first
autobiography [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], which was in
a pitiable state. A year's worth of research, a lot of assistance from
some of the most premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it
became an FA.
In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about Angelou's five
remaining autobiographies (one is a FA, the others are GAs), some ancillary
articles about her other works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya
Angelou]] is currently up for FLC.) After I completed the article about
Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio up to snuff, and it
had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass in its first candidacy. I
think that was due to the fact that the article was truly prepared before
it was submitted. For anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC
process, that's my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do not
use FAC (or GAC, even) to review it. There are other places for that, so
use them before bringing it to FAC.
My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic. There are some
things that need to be accomplished before that; my goal is to get there
before Dr. Angelou's 85th birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very
least, that her bio will on the front page. Ironically, this is the week I
started researching the article about another elderly and important woman:
[[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame Street.
Christine
Username: Figureskatingfan
>From
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Other_meetups_and_meetings
The Women's Luncheon on Saturday was something I was very much looking
forward to, but it fell short of my expectations. I was enjoying bonding
with the women at my table, asking the speakers about their
presentations and hoping to form some more solid relationships with
veteran and new Wikipedians alike. Being required to sit back quietly
while 125+ women each stood up to introduce themselves felt like a waste
of an opportunity to build a stronger female editing community. Knowing
that the women are passionate about sharing was good, but wouldn't have
been more to the purpose to encourage networking so all the women in
attendance would be more inclined to stay active and recruit knowing
there was a pool of support they could personally draw upon?
[[User:Samarista|Samarista]] ([[User talk:Samarista|talk]]) 17 July 2012
(UTC)
I personally liked the intros. Perhaps suggest a common topic or two
people can discuss at tables?
Or have a separate meetups - a couple at different times, perhaps with
different themes. That might answer her concerns ?
Note that in the feedback section two of us mentioned that annoucements
of meetups needed to be better.
Reminder: this office hours begin in 30 minutes. :-)
Join #wikimedia-office from your IRC client or
Webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office
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> Date: Jul 31, 2012 3:36 AM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows
> To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Hi all,
> The Wikimedia Fellows program will be holding IRC office hours in
> #wikimedia-office this Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 21:00 UTC. Fellows
> Tanvir Rahman, Peter Coombe, Jon Harald Søby, Steven Zhang, Sarah Stierch
> and Jonathan Morgan will be there to discuss their current fellowship
> projects (exact topics TBD based on who shows up with
> questions/comments/feedback), and I'll take any questions on the
> fellowships program that you may have.[1][2] As always, links to time
> conversion and other office hour info is on Meta.[3] Hope to see you there!
> Best wishes,
> Siko
>
> 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News/Current, and this should
> be even more current by Thursday :-)
> 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships
> 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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Dear GenderGappers!
I hope that you are all fine.
It was great to see some of you at Wikimania, the women luncheon was a very happy experience!
Let me also make you notice that some of us are involved in the organization of a track on gender and diversity in openness at the Open Knowledge Festival (Helsinki 17-22 September 2012). It will be a great opportunity to keep the conversation and move forward the gender conscientiousness in technological and open circles. The Festival is absolutely fantastic, plus, see that there is a possibility to apply for Travel Bursaries http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/ (deadline today 1st August!!! unless you are from a developing country in which case it is August 8th). It would be great that many women attend the Festival (okfestival.org), join the gender and diversity track (http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/) and could take advantage of this Bursaries opportunity (http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/).
Kisses! Mayo
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Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University.
Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson <cindamuse(a)gmail.com<mailto:cindamuse@gmail.com>> wrote:
My own thoughts echo those expressed by others. Great job, Christine! No surprise though, I think your work is outstanding!
Cindy
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com<mailto:sydney.poore@gmail.com>> wrote:
Christine, that's truly awesome. :-)
I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now, and thrilled to see that you've got her biography to FA. It will be fantastic for her article to be on the main page on her birthday as a feature article!
Sydney
User:FloNight
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Christine Meyer <christinewmeyer(a)gmail.com<mailto:christinewmeyer@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in en.Wikipedia, and this week marks a major accomplishment for me in this area and for me as an editor. [[Maya Angelou]] is now a featured article.
I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my very first edit of it was early in my WP-editing career, in September 2007: [diff http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&oldid=1588…]. It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of the time. When I came across it, I realized that Angelou's work and life was sorely underrepresented and not at all comprehensive, way before I came to understand the gender gap in this project. I also realized that in order to do the subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert, something I definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very least, I needed to read her six autobiographies, and while I was at it, write articles about them. Only one article existed at the time: her first autobiography [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], which was in a pitiable state. A year's worth of research, a lot of assistance from some of the most premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it became an FA.
In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about Angelou's five remaining autobiographies (one is a FA, the others are GAs), some ancillary articles about her other works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya Angelou]] is currently up for FLC.) After I completed the article about Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio up to snuff, and it had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass in its first candidacy. I think that was due to the fact that the article was truly prepared before it was submitted. For anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC process, that's my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do not use FAC (or GAC, even) to review it. There are other places for that, so use them before bringing it to FAC.
My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic. There are some things that need to be accomplished before that; my goal is to get there before Dr. Angelou's 85th birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very least, that her bio will on the front page. Ironically, this is the week I started researching the article about another elderly and important woman: [[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame Street.
Christine
Username: Figureskatingfan
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