Hi all,
I was wanting to create T-Shirts for sale to people supporting Women4Wikipedia using the images on the page found at http://women4wikipedia.net
I was wondering if they could be added to the official merchandise shop on cafepress.com since the Wikipedia name may well be trademarked- besides it just seems the most logical way to go about it?
This is the page where the current cafepress.com designs were decided:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merchandise
I'm not sure how to go about things from this point though and whether our designs can be used? The small header image is licenced CC0 but the larger image further down on the page is currently not in the public domain. I need to know what license is most appropriate should we be given permission to add it to the official Wikipedia merchandise designs. This larger image is also available in varying colours for different coloured T-shirts, as is the header.
regards
Rosie Williams
http://collectiveaction.com.au
@collectiveact
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"Ladies Mapping Party" Strengthens Google's Africa Maps
By Curt Hopkins / March 2, 2011 2:00 PM / 0 Comments
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If you like the idea of a quilting bee but prefer your bits electronic instead of fabric, you might be interested in a "ladies mapping party." 70 Kenyan women were, and showed up to a Google-sponsored a ladies mapping party at Nairobi's iHub in February.
The women used Google Map Maker, and their specific local knowledge, to fill in schools, health centers, market centers, community development projects, restaurants and roads in a country too often neglected by cartographers.
Jacqueline Rajuai, Geo Specialist with Google, said the mix of women and the skills and knowledge they brought ranged widely.
"We had a mix of students, web developers, Non-profit CEOs, an advocate and even an editor. Their backgrounds were quite an interesting mix as we had Computer Science students and Geography students, participants with an environmental background but the common factor is that they had an interest to improve the Kenya maps. Either where they live, where they have projects or areas they frequent."
This is hardly the first time Google has invited people to an intensive mapping party. Not unlike the independent Map Kibera experiment, Google invited the inhabitants of Korogocho to put themselves on the map. A Pakistan project brought people together last year to map changes after that country's horrific mudslides.
Google is hardly a non-profit. All the information entered is available for further iterations of the company's maps. However, Rajuai says this undertaking extends beyond making a profit.
"The bigger aim of all this is to make the world's information accessible, and also to make sure that we get more African content, and to make the internet useful and relevant for Africans."
Any readers involved in other crowdsourced mapping projects? Let us know in the comments.
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Jay Walsh
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WikimediaFoundation.orgblog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw
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In the early days of this list, quite a few participants of both genders expressed the view that "women are turned off by all the fighting and feuding".
I don't doubt the validity of that sentiment, and that it reflects the feelings of some of the women who posted it. And, while of course it isn't just women who are turned off by that, I think it is true that more women than men would just go somewhere else rather than get in the middle of that sort of thing.
But I think we should be careful considering this because it's far too easy to fall into the stereotype of women as too fragile to handle any sort of conflict, and thus requiring exclusion or limitation from any sphere where that might break out. We all know that's not true, or we wouldn't be here.
And for what it's worth, two of the very small group of Wikipedia editors I'd figuratively walk across the street to avoid are women.
Daniel Case
Rosie,
The Women4Wikipedia site is awesome - it rocks.
You're doing excellent work there.
- Susan Spencer Conklin
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> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:35:08 +1100
> From: Collective Action <collective_action(a)hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Gendergap] Men v Women
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> I'd like to draw attention to my recent blog post for Women4Wikiepdia.net
> titled Men v Women at http://women4wikipedia.blogspot.com/
> Excerpt:
>
> "If we are going to call men out on their behaviour as agents of the
> patriarchy then we must also call out ourselves. Men are no less
> influenced and controlled by patriarchal culture, traditions and systems
> as are women. I would go so far as to say that it is unrealistic of us
> to expect men to free themselves of the rewards and punishments of
> patriarchy when we as women find it so difficult not to play along,
> enjoy the rewards and participate in the same punishments."
>
> There is also a forum for women linked to the campaign home page at
> http://women4wikipedia.net
>
>
>
> regards
>
> Rosie Williams
>
> http://collectiveaction.com.au
>
> @collectiveact
>
>
I'd like to draw attention to my recent blog post for Women4Wikiepdia.net titled Men v Women at http://women4wikipedia.blogspot.com/
Excerpt:
"If we are going to call men out on their behaviour as agents of the
patriarchy then we must also call out ourselves. Men are no less
influenced and controlled by patriarchal culture, traditions and systems
as are women. I would go so far as to say that it is unrealistic of us
to expect men to free themselves of the rewards and punishments of
patriarchy when we as women find it so difficult not to play along,
enjoy the rewards and participate in the same punishments."
There is also a forum for women linked to the campaign home page at http://women4wikipedia.net
regards
Rosie Williams
http://collectiveaction.com.au
@collectiveact