Hehe sure, when I'm off my phone I'd be happy to!
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From: "Siko Bouterse" <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw moreWi kipedia editing parties by Siko (yes!!)
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 3:32 PM
Cool! Any chance you'd want to say that as a comment on the blog post?
(people never comment much there...would be nice to figure out how to
generate some more public conversation that way).
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, keilanawiki(a)gmail.com <
keilanawiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend and I did this a few weeks ago (without the wine, being underage
> and whatnot)! We cooked an Indian feast and as everything simmered, we
> settled in and wrote a couple articles together, one of which was a DYK a
> few days later. It was so fun and we are making plans to collaborate again
> via Skype! I think this is a great way to get women involved.
>
> Sent from my HTC One™ S on T-Mobile. America’s First Nationwide 4G Network.
>
>
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> From: "Sarah Stierch" <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
> To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <
> gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw moreWi kipedia editing parties
> by Siko (yes!!)
> Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 12:17 PM
>
>
> Awesome blog by Siko about the recent Wikipedia editing party she held
> recently. She invited a small group of girlfriends over and they drank
> wine and edited Wikipedia!
>
> Inspiring enough that I've decided to have a "Wiki, Wine with Women"
> party at my house Friday for a group of girl friends!
>
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/lets-throw-more-wikipedia-editing-par…
>
> I'm going to be promoting the heck out of this concept for WikiWomen's
> History Month!!![1]
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
>
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A friend and I did this a few weeks ago (without the wine, being underage and whatnot)! We cooked an Indian feast and as everything simmered, we settled in and wrote a couple articles together, one of which was a DYK a few days later. It was so fun and we are making plans to collaborate again via Skype! I think this is a great way to get women involved.
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From: "Sarah Stierch" <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw moreWi kipedia editing parties by Siko (yes!!)
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 12:17 PM
Awesome blog by Siko about the recent Wikipedia editing party she held
recently. She invited a small group of girlfriends over and they drank
wine and edited Wikipedia!
Inspiring enough that I've decided to have a "Wiki, Wine with Women"
party at my house Friday for a group of girl friends!
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/lets-throw-more-wikipedia-editing-par…
I'm going to be promoting the heck out of this concept for WikiWomen's
History Month!!![1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
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(pardon the cross-posting)
See below! Might be of interest to some of you!
-Sarah
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Subject: [Hive] Fwd: [Systers] Systers Spring 2013 Pass-It-On Awards -
Applications NOW OPEN!
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:24:59 -0800
From: Liz Henry <liz(a)bookmaniac.org>
Reply-To: liz(a)bookmaniac.org
To: hive(a)feministhackers.org
If anyone wants to apply for this grant, I'd love to support your
application.
I think any of us could apply for this and run a really nice workshop
for women in our communities. Since it is a grant for up to $1000, it
would be a pretty cool opportunity to do some electronics. Or , really,
anything else you might feel like teaching.
"Projects are expected to benefit one or more women or girls in an
activity related both to the field of computing and to being a woman. We
expect the project to have some lasting effect. We will not fund
purchases of food or gifts, and we do not contribute to other
organizations. We do fund equipment, educational costs, conference
costs, books, supplies for hands-on activities and other expenses
related to activities involving computing technology. If you are in
doubt, please email your questions to us at "passiton-2013spring AT
systers DOT org"."
Anita Borg as an organization is, to the best of my knowledge,
supportive for transgender and intersex people who identify as women.
Best,
liz
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Subject: [Systers] Systers Spring 2013 Pass-It-On Awards - Applications
NOW OPEN!
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:40:51 -0700
From: Kristin Potter <kpotter(a)sci.utah.edu>
To: systers+applications20(a)systers.org
Dear Systers,
I would like to invite applications for the Spring Round of the
Pass-It-On Awards. The *Anita Borg Systers Pass-It-On (PIO) Awards
*honor Anita Borg’s desire to create a network of technical women
helping one another. The cash awards, funded exclusively by donations
from the Systers Online Community, are intended as means for women
established in technological fields to support women seeking their
place in the fields of technology. The program is called “Pass-It-On”
because it comes with the moral obligation to “pass on” the benefits
gained from the award.
**Women of all ages (over 18), nationalities, and backgrounds are
encouraged to apply.**
*The deadline to apply for the Spring 2013 round is *Wednesday April 10,
2013 at 12:00noon PST (UT-8)*.
Reference letters are due on Wednesday April 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM PST (UT-8).
If you would like to apply, or know of a woman in technology who would
like to apply, you can read about the awards online at:
http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/systers/pass-it-on-grants-program/ .
Guidelines for completing the online application form for this award are
available online at:
http://anitaborg.org/files/passiton_awards_guidelines.pdf.
The application form for *Spring* *2013 cycle of the Systers Pass-it-on
Awards *is online at: http://anitaborg.org/passiton-applicants/.
*Please help us publicize the PIO awards to your professional and social
networks and encourage your peers to apply.*
If you have any questions or comments concerning the Systers Pass-It-On
Awards, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kristi Potter, Research Scientist, SCI Institute, University of Utah
Chair, 2013 Systers Pass-it-on Awards Review Committee
kpotter(a)sci.utah.edu
http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/systers/pass-it-on-grants-program/pass-it-…
All,
You may be interested in a current draft rewrite of the Wikimedia Commons policy on the use of images of identifiable people. (I have not reviewed this in detail, so I'm not endorsing this -- just sharing something that is likely of interest to this list.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Photographs_of_identifiable…
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
I came across this article about a mysterious editor (a few of us know
her on wiki). Nice!! :)
http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/freshmans-wikipedia-work-creates-opportunities
Freshman's Wikipedia work creates opportunities
[media-credit name="Sydney South" align="aligncenter"
width="300"]<http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/biophysics-graphic.…>[/media-credit]
When most people think of a biophysics conference, images of scientists
and professionals with high levels of education gathering together come
to mind, not a college freshman attending or even speaking at the event.
One Loyola student, however, has been invited to do just that.
Olivia, an 18-year-old biology, physics and biophysics triple major,
will speak at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, taking place in
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2-6.
She landed her invitation to this event through her volunteer work,
which involves researching, writing, editing and other administrative
duties for Wikipedia, the free, collaborative Internet encyclopedia.
Due to security reasons involving her position at Wikipedia, Olivia's
real name has been changed for this article.
The freshman has been involved with Wikipedia for five years, with a two
--- year hiatus from about January 2010 until April 2012. Olivia started
as an editor when she was 12 in April 2007. Since then, she has been
granted volunteer administrator status, which Olivia describes as
"getting a delete button."
However, she said she does much more than that. All of the work Olivia
does on Wikipedia is unpaid and considered volunteering, as she spends
several hours on most days a week working on the site.
"I do a lot of administrative work, like looking at the decisions of the
community in discussions, deleting stuff that should not be there,
antivandalism work," Olivia said. "I do some dispute resolution work
too, so when people get in fights [in discussion forums or concerning
content edits], I try to solve them."
Olivia has written six featured articles, or articles featured on
Wikipedia's homepage because they are the website's most reliable
content. She has written one article on cannons in a group with 10 other
people, as well as a piece on the history of timekeeping devices,
including clocks, sundials and other devices. On her own, Olivia has
also composed several pieces about constellations.
"We have very strong policies that you have to use reliable secondary
sources, you can't do your own research and put that in," Olivia said of
writing and researching for an article. "You basically find out
everything you can and distill it into an article."
She also participates in Wikipedia Projects.
"We call them WikiProjects for short. They're focused areas of
collaboration for people; so it's where anyone who is interested in
whatever can work on stuff and bounce ideas off each other, create work
lists or lists of resources," Olivia said. "Anybody can edit, that's the
beauty of it. Not a lot of people realize that anyone can edit."
She started a WikiProject, "WikiProject Women Scientists," with Sarah
Stierch, a gender gap fellow for the Wikimedia Foundation, who reaches
out to women to get them more involved with Wikipedia and who tries to
get more articles written about women.
The Wikimedia Foundation is "a nonprofit charitable organization
dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
free, multilingual content," according to their website, and not only
operates Wikipedia but also Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikibooks.
"[Stierch] and I decided that there is a systemic bias in Wikipedia
against articles about women and against things that relate to women,"
said Olivia on why she started the project. "It was just a natural fit,
since I want to be a woman scientist also."
Her invitation to the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting occurred when a
female professor and biophysicist from Duke University was perusing an
article about herself. When Olivia saw who was browsing the profile, she
contacted the professor and invited her to join her WikiProject. Their
conversation turned into an invitation for Olivia to attend the
conference, engage in and help with a Wikipedia meet-up and editing
session and tentatively speak to the Committee for Professional
Opportunities for Women about the biographies of females scientists and
the importance and ease of writing them on Wikipedia. Her flight and
registration fees will be paid for by the Biophysical Society.
"I can't quite believe this is happening," Olivia said. "It's awesome.
I'm very excited."
The Biophysical Society Annual Meeting attracts over 6,000 attendees
from over 45 different countries, including scientists, professors and
other biophysics enthusiasts.
Olivia's roommate Anne, a freshman forensic science major who is not
using her last name in order to protect the identity of Olivia, shares
similar enthusiasm for Olivia's opportunity.
"It's an incredible opportunity that someone who is 18 years old and
just in college is personally invited to an amazing conference like
this," Anne said. "She totally deserves it."
Olivia's mother, Sue, whose name has also been changed because of her
daughter's sensitive Wikipedia involvements, said she was as excited as
her daughter.
"This is obviously a wonderful opportunity for [Olivia] to, first of
all, really immerse herself in the subject of biophysics and confirm, or
not, that this is the field she wants to pursue," Sue said. "And meeting
other students, professors and professionals in the field will help give
her a really good picture of what working in this field would be like.
It just seems like it's an important door opening for her. She might
have had the chance to attend in a couple of years, but getting to go as
a freshman just seems like a jump start."
Olivia's involvement with the project has presented her with a unique
opportunity not only to attend the conference, but to participate in a
collective community.
"I've seen really great collaboration, I've seen people write great
things," she said. "I've seen everyone from stupid 12 year olds to
80-year-old grandparents work together and create things. [Wikipedia]
gives me opportunity to work with people around the world and create a
body of knowledge that the world has never seen before. I also get to
share all of the cool things that I'm interested in, and that's awesome."
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Tonight I stumbled across the article about the YWCA (Young Women's
Christian Association). Regardless of religious affiliation, many of us
are familiar with their services (I went to "chipmunk camp" at one as a
kid, and I take advantage of their sliding cost scale for exercising).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_YWCA
compare that to the article at the men's version: YMCA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA
What the what. And look at how many languages the YMCA has been
translated into compared to the YWCA. A nice case study.
O_o
I just added to the WikiWomen's History Month to do list, but don't let
that stop you from working on it before March. Or adding historical
chapters and YWCA related people to the list, too![1]
-Sarah
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month/To-do_li…
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