<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayvdb@gmail.com">jayvdb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our<br>
community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest<br>
chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia<br>
are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can<br>
be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment,<br>
the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground<br>
for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information<br>
gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights<br>
into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to<br>
Wikipedia.<br>
<br>
FloNight is active whenever she can find time.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight" target="_blank">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight</a><br>
(i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)<br></blockquote><div><br>I love Wikisource. It might be my favorite wikiproject. I met John there way back in 2007 when I was adding poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and adding children stories. :-)<br>
<br>I need to see what I can related to my most recent women's articles on WP.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very<br>
active in moderating the tone of the community.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB" target="_blank">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB</a><br></blockquote></div><br>BirgitteSB, is a great resource. She is knowledgeable about Wikisource and WMF policy in general. <br>
<br>Sydney<br>