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Hey all, check out Wikisource's main page right now. :-) There are
several users whose gender I don't know, but one of Wikisource's
currently most active editors, and an administrator, is
kathleen.wright5. One of its bureaucrats and village elders is also
a woman, BirgitteSB. Inspired by some of the uploads from the
National Archives, we recently created a women's suffrage portal
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women%27s_suffrage">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women%27s_suffrage</a>), which is
slightly misnamed, because a few other documents from related
non-suffrage political activism have been since added.<br>
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I think several of the sister projects are actually places where it
would be easier for women to thrive than the English Wikipedia,
especially Wikisource and Wikiquote. These are small communities
that have the luxury of nurturing newcomers (and lack the culture of
competitive patrolling which puts off newbies), have less
bureaucracy, and have less conflict. We can only speculate, but I
think a main reason that there is a gender gap on such other
projects is just because most projects live in Wikipedia's shadow
and new editors only find them through becoming Wikipedia
contributors, and those demographics carry over.<br>
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Dominic<br>
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On 9/15/11 9:17 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
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cite="mid:CAKiGLfp0uFhHN2HBRDVwiSuv=1LGCqZYDB82UgEzmRBvOQwviA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to
wikiquote. I have contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to
think I'm the only woman who ever has, even though it was two
documents. I don't even think there is much of anything related to
women's history on Wikisource...<br>
<br>
We were discussing in #wikimedia-gendergap a few days ago about
the need for more featured images of women and related subjects on
Commons. I kept rolling my eyes everytime I saw the ATV that was a
featured image the other day. <br>
<br>
I'm actually developing a wikipage that will showcase a collection
of topics that need expansion, watching, clean up, etc, and/or
photos for English Wikipedia, which I naturally assume will be the
same for other languages. Once it's a little fleshed out we can
see if it's useful in any way. I think it's interesting just to
see what we're lacking on...on top of the 1009232 other things I'm
doing...<br>
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-Sarah<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <span
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Looking at my
wikiquotes talk page for the first time in a while, I was
reminded that is another area women's contributions may not
be taken as seriously.<br>
<br>
Example: the deletion in 2009 of poet Marcella Boccia's
quotes from English wikipedia after her article had been
deleted from En wikipedia.<br>
<br>
Actually, I just checked and it's not in the Italian
wikipedia version either. Despite <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1"
target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1</a>
notability in Italian I noted at time of deletion
discussion.<br>
<br>
So let's not forget Wikiquote!!<br>
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