https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/26/valerie-juarez-bug-wrangler-in-traini…
"In MediaWiki and open source in general, a limited perspective can
affect which software functionality is added, removed, or even
considered. ... Wikipedia, which is intended for everyone, should not be
created by only half of the population.... I don’t think most people
understand that they can contribute and make Wikipedia better. Like me,
they don’t think they have anything to offer, but I’m learning that I
can help. I hope other people will realize that too."
Thanks to Alice Roberts for writing this profile.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
in case you are around São Paulo city next 2nd March, please, feel free to
join us on a meetup and edithaton with women (sure, men are welcome!) to
discuss about the gender gap and learn more how to edit Wikipedia
http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher
It'll be at The Hub (Bela Cintra street), near Paulista Avenue.
Abraços,
Tom
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing."
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to connect a woman who is doing an edit-a-thon at Tulane
University with any WikiWomen in the area. If you can contact me off
list, I'd appreciate it, thanks.
-Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
Hi ya'll,
If you are in the Washington, D.C. region this upcoming week, a group of
us are meeting together for beers (or not) and conversation! I'll be in
town, come join us!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_34
Hope to see you there - and please forward to any interested parties!
-Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
On 24 February 2013 14:24, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone -
>
> This popped up on my watchlist today:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_El_Salvador#Request…
>
> A student is looking for input about gender quality in El Salvador. The
> current [[El Salvador]] article doesn't mention any such subject,
> so....this student is looking for feedback.
>
> I know a few of us (including me!) work on articles like this
> (specifically...Women in El Salvador, for example) so I hope you'll get
> involved.
>
>
I have to say that the unintentional typo in the title of this thread made
me *very* curious!
'
Risker/Anne
Hi everyone -
This popped up on my watchlist today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_El_Salvador#Request…
A student is looking for input about gender quality in El Salvador. The
current [[El Salvador]] article doesn't mention any such subject,
so....this student is looking for feedback.
I know a few of us (including me!) work on articles like this
(specifically...Women in El Salvador, for example) so I hope you'll get
involved.
-Sarah
--
*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
ATTN: Australians, mostly ;-)
During the week of ALIA at which Sue Gardner keynoted, the Wikimedia
Australia committee consulted with Australian GLAM partners and
formulated a concept to support a significant number of Wikimedians in
Residence across Australia. After a bit of refinement, and having
received a few in-principle agreements from GLAMs, the committee
approved the following proposal on Sunday.
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:WWI_WiR
If you will reside in Australia in the 2013-14 financial year, and can
work as a WiR one day a week for six months, please apply here (and/or
tell your friends):
http://tinyurl.com/WWIWiRAu
If you think cultural institutions in your region will be interested
and have relevant material in their collection, please ask them to
email committee(a)wikimedia.org.au .
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John Vandenberg
[Pardon the cross-posts - and the English message] - Please forward as
well!
Hi everyone,
March is Women's History Month, and this will be the second year for
WikiWomen's History Month, an *international* collaborative event that
takes place offline at edit-a-thons and online through project focuses.
Events and projects focus on improving women's history coverage on any
language project. We have a page on English Wikipedia, like last year,
to gather all of the events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
So far we have events in South America, Europe and the United States.
I hope you'll consider throwing an event in your town, village, or city
- or do a women's history focus for your WikiProject - large or small!
Sarah
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*Sarah Stierch*
*/Museumist and open culture advocate/*
>>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<
Hi all -
A draft of an individual engagement grant proposal was just posted to
meta-wiki focused on improving the English Wikipedia's coverage of
topics that lay at the intersection of women and philosophy. If
approved, I'll be working on the project, along with Alex Madva and
Katie Gasdaglis. (Both Alex and Katie are members of this list,
although I don't know if they've actually posted here before.) Alex
and Katie don't have a lot of content edits on any of the Wikimedia
projects yet, but we've been talking about trying to conduct a project
like this for a number of months, and they're pretty well-versed in
issues related to demographic and coverage gaps on Wikipedia, and are
also familiar with previous efforts to bring the academy and Wikipedia
closer together. Alex is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy
at UC Berkeley, and Katie is finishing up her PhD in philosophy at
Columbia.
The basic idea behind our proposal is to engage in a few separate
forms of outreach to the academy in an effort to improve the English
Wikipedia's coverage of topics that lay at the intersection of women
and philosophy, including feminist philosophy, gender and race
theory, scholarly work by women and other minority philosophers,
philosophical topics that are historically underrepresented or
marginalized because of their association with stigmatized groups
(including women and minorities), and biographical articles on women
and other minority philosophers themselves. We'll be reaching out to
instructors in targeted disciplines to encourage their classes to
participate in the education program, and developing reusable
resources very explicitly tailored towards how to best contribute to
Wikipedia as a member of a class that is focused on an
underrepresented area of philosophy. (We intend to only have a limited
number of instructors and students participate, to ensure that we'll
be able to handle any extra workload the project creates and to ensure
that we only accept instructors who are excited about the project and
are willing to put in enough time to do it right.) We'll also be
reaching out to academic philosophers from subfields currently
underrepresented on Wikipedia and encouraging them to participate
directly (including us hosting trainings, producing material
specifically geared towards making their transition in to Wikipedia
easier, placing blog posts in appropriate places, etc.) We will also
be soliciting feedback from academics about any policy issues they see
that could be damaging ENWP's ability to eventually cover
underrepresented areas adequately - one thing that has come up so far
is the possibility that the academic notability guidelines may be
missing criteria that are highly indicative of a philosopher being
notable. If anything of this nature shows up, we'll try to get the
academic who perceives a problem to make a public articulation of it,
so that we can bring their thoughts about it to ENWP's community.
We've been talking about these ideas with a number of professors from
several different universities, and a lot of them are quite excited
about it. I think that this has the potential to go a long ways
towards addressing ENWP's lack of coverage in our targeted content
areas, and will hopefully also create an outreach model that can be
replicated in other underrepresented disciplines and on other
Wikimedia projects in the future - we'll be documenting everything we
do meticulously. We'd welcome any comments/questions/concerns/etc
about the project, either posted here or on the talk page of the
proposal.
You can read the grant proposal here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_on_the_Margins:_Women,_…
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Kevin Gorman
Hi Tom,
sounds like a great idea; would you like to draft a post summarizing
such Wikimedia-related activities for the WikiWomen series on the
blog? (https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/community/wikiwomen/ ) There are
instructions at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Blogs .
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
<tom(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Women's day and Wikipedia
> To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
> <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org>, Gayle Karen Young <gyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Some Brazilians started to organize themsevelves
>
> * http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher (google
> translation <http://goo.gl/mgKBY>)
>
> Let's try to transform the event in an international one. Maybe WMF
> could support it on its blog?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
> <tom(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> today I just remembered that the International Women's day is arriving
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day>. I would like
>> to know if people in this group is thinking about something to do on 8
>> March. I just compared the English article in Wikipedia with the
>> Portuguese version
>> <http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher> and it
>> seems there is a lot to be improved in the later, although I am sure a
>> lot in the first as well.
>>
>> I remember the first time I saw how important is this day was through
>> a Russian friend who taught how important is this day for the Russian
>> woman - at least that is my impression when I compare to my society,
>> although I know people here who value this day a lot, like dad who
>> always give something to mom. :)
>>
>> Sorry if I missed some e-mail, but is there something planned? (just
>> saw the e-mail bellow) Maybe an international edithaton about some
>> women on Wikipedia? Or improve the Wikipedia article about this day
>> and try to achieve a better level on the 10 most read languages of
>> Wikipedia? Just some ideas, I hope more can appear.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:07 AM, patricia morales
>> <mariadelcarmenpatricia(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Feminae - International Women's Day 2013
>>> We are pleased to invite you to participate in Feminae (“women” in Latin), a collective and interdisciplinary work, which aims to bring together an anthology of artistic and intellectual contributions as a tribute to women’s wisdom across cultures and history.
>>>
>>> 1. How to participate?
>>> A. Choose an inspiring quote, artwork or idea of a female author (original language or translation; giving the source, when possible).
>>> B. Indicate the name of the selected author.
>>> C. Write your own reflections on your choice in English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German
>>> D. Indicate your name, country, professional background.
>>>
>>> An example for the contribution (The final size is horizontal A4 paper/format for online media) :
>>>
>>> A. SELECTED QUOTE
>>> artwork, idea, proposal, or statement
>>> (original texts and/or translation, source)
>>>
>>> "I am among those who think that science has great beauty"
>>> (In Madame Curie: A Biography (1937)
>>>
>>> (Pictures, drawing, collage can be included)
>>> B. YOUR PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION
>>> Why did you choose that quote/work?
>>> Your motivation
>>>
>>> / the work and personality of Marie Curie symbolize the irrefutable and magnificent fusion of women and science.../
>>>
>>> (Pictures, drawing, collage can be included)
>>> C. DATA OF THE FEMALE AUTHOR
>>> data of the chosen author / brief information
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> Marie Curie, Polish scientist
>>> Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 and 1911, etc.
>>> D. YOUR DATA (female/male)
>>> Your name, country, profession, background
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> Mafalda
>>> Pedagogue, Argentina
>>>
>>> 2. Which format to use? How and when to send it?
>>> Please, submit your contribution no longer than 300 words before the 4th of March 2013:
>>> By email to patricia.morales(a)arts.kuleuven.be
>>> - a text in Word or WP format or
>>> - an attached document in Word, WP, PDF or JPG following the form of an horizontal A4 paper
>>> or
>>> By mail to: Faculty of Arts, KULeuven, Blijde Inkomstraat 21, PO Box 3312, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
>>> - Your printed contribution (following the form of an horizontal A4 paper or equivalent)
>>>
>>> 3. When and where is Feminae exhibited and who receives your contribution?
>>>
>>> -A digital / online exhibition will take place on March 8 at the University of Leuven, Faculty of Arts.
>>> -Feminae will be available online to the public and the media on youtube (film/power points).
>>> -A copy of the book Feminae will be given to: UN Women, UNESCO and the University of Leuven.
>>>
>>> Note: Feminae can be freely used and reproduced, quoting respectively the contributor, who retains her/his copyrights. Your participation implies the acceptance of that donation to the public domain.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
>> useful than a life spent doing nothing."
>
>
>
> --
> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
> useful than a life spent doing nothing."
>
>
> --
> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
> "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
> useful than a life spent doing nothing."
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
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