Laura and I were talking on IRC the other day, and we were playing around with the idea of a monthly systematic gender bias themed topic for each month, encouraging users on gendergap-L and the IRC channel to contribute content about that subject. <br>
<br>I encourage you all (and yes, even you staff members...you don't edit enough anymore you know that! ;) ) to contribute something to any language Wikipedia or related sister project about....<b>ROLLER DERBY!<br><br>
</b>Women are known for playing the sport, and of course, there are men who play too. Laura recently had an article about an Adelaide team on English DYK, and we've also noticed that the [[roller derby]] article itself needs improvement. We're hoping to see it be a GA-->FA eventually. <br>
<br>I'm talking to a few friends who are team photographers for derby teams in the States, and hoping to get a content donation from them of quality high res photographs. There is also a category on Commons and plenty of options on Flickr too: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=roller+derby&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=0&mt=all&w=all&adv=1">http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=roller+derby&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=0&mt=all&w=all&adv=1</a><br>
<br>Start an article about your local team, help build the [[roller derby]] article to high quality, film a video of teams practicing, scan a game brochure for article use....<br><br>I do hope you'll participate. Share your results and participants will receive a <b>special</b> barnstar award. <br>
<br><br>Sarah<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.glamwiki.org" target="_blank">GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch" target="_blank">Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art</a> <br>
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