This project sounds great!<br><br>However, the phrase 'Celebrate Women' doesn't have <br>any meaning, and could be anything - <br>it could be a Solstice-based party in <br>somebody's cornfield or an online<br>
family-planning course. <br>Consider how effective a campaign called <br>'Celebrate Men' would be. <br><br>We're trying to appeal to people with expertise and<br>experience, who need something meaningful <br>
to get their attention.<br><br>- Susan Spencer Conklin<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:34:22 -0700 (MST)<br>
From: "Fred Bauder" <<a href="mailto:fredbaud@fairpoint.net">fredbaud@fairpoint.net</a>><br>
Subject: [Gendergap] Celebrate Women<br>
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Let's do a Wikipedia wide project, call it "Celebrate Women". There might<br>
be banners featuring either articles about women, or women editors.<br>
Featured articles during this period, of perhaps a year, would be<br>
biographies of women or even women played significant roles in.<br>
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Lists of articles which are needed or which need improvement could be<br>
drawn up and, of course, projects started.<br>
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By the way, work on the article "role model" is progressing and will<br>
eventually include a section on positive, as opposed to celebrity, role<br>
models, both male and female. I think there are quite a few resources,<br>
once you start looking for them in terms of lists of admired women, or<br>
men.<br>
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Fred<br>
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