Gendergap February 2013

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Women's day and Wikipedia
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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How Twitter turned a hashtag prank into a feminist victory
by Andreas Kolbe 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

http://www.dailydot.com/society/ineedmasculismbecause-4chan-mens-rights-mra/ (I hope these may be of tangential interest, even though they are not directly related to Wikipedia.) A.

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William Shatner calls Reddit out for racism, sexism
by Andreas Kolbe 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

http://www.dailydot.com/society/william-shatner-reddit-moderation-racism-se…

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Contacting me
by Sarah Stierch 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Hi everyone - Just a reminder that I am no longer a fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation and I am not using my Wikimedia email address (sstierch(a)wikimedia.org). If you need to contact me off list or off wiki please contact me at sarahstierch(a)gmail.com Also keep in mind my volunteer time is limited these days due to other work, but, I'll do my best to get back to you in a timely manner. And of course, if you want to get involved in helping to maintain the WikiWomen's Collaborative and making it sustainable (I have noticed that our blogs and Facebook posts have declined since the end of my fellowship :( ) you can get involved here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative Thanks, Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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Netha's blog on the Huffington Post
by Sarah Stierch 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

WikiWoman Netha Hussain has written a blog for the Huffington Post UK about the gender gap and how women can get involved in editing Wikipedia. Great work Netha! She also gave a shout out to the Ada Initiative. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gen… Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I amone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain>of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around9% <http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf>of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent. Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is theWikiWomen's Collaborative <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative>. The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety ofevents <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_r…>, like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a part of the collaborative. In May 2012, aWikiWomenCamp <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp>was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing problems that concern women, and suggest future plans to collaborate with one another. It is customary to conduct aWikiWomen's luncheon <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChix_2011_Lunch>atWikimania <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/>, the global gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants. Organizations like theAda Initiative <http://adainitiative.org/>, named for the world's first programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, support women working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by creating resources for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising organizations on supporting women. Many outreach programs were conducted in women's universities all over the world to encourage students to participate in the Wikimedia movement. The Women's History month edit-a-thons conducted every year, attracts both male and female editors to write biographies of notable women on Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25% by 2015. Given the good response from the community to various events conducted for women, it is likely that the foundation will achieve its goal within the set time limit. //If you would like to get engaged in various activities for women in Wikipedia, you are welcome to write tome <mailto:nethahussain@gmail.com>or join ushere <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative>. // -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><<

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presentation about MediaWiki's participation in Outreach Program for Women
by Sumana Harihareswara 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2013-02-07 Yesterday I gave a 3-minute presentation about the Outreach Program for Women at the monthly Wikimedia Foundation all-hands meeting. My slides are up on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opw-presentation-feb7-2013.pdf More about our participation in OPW: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women The parent organization's page about OPW: https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen The blog aggregator where you can read interns' and mentors' posts: http://planeteria.org/wfs The YouTube video will be at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17rTFSUy3Xk once Google finishes processing the livestream. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Feminae A tribute to women's wisdom
by patricia morales 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

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 contributionno longer than 300 wordsbefore 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: Feminaecan 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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Self-introduction
by Sumana Harihareswara 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi. I've just joined this mailing list and figured I should introduce myself. I'm the community manager for Wikimedia's engineering efforts and I'm the US-born daughter of Indian immigrants. I'm an advisory board member of the Ada Initiative and I launched Wikimedia's participation in the Outreach Program for Women internships in open source <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women>. I've worked for the Wikimedia Foundation for about two years. You might enjoy the keynote address I gave at Open Source Bridge last year <http://adainitiative.org/2012/06/sumana-harihareswaras-be-bold-an-origin-st…>, in which I talked about factors in my upbringing that prepared me for or discouraged me from participation in free culture projects. And in my spare time, the article I'm updating is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard . :-) Thanks for hosting and participating in this discussion. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sharihareswara_%28WMF%29

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WMF grant proposal
by paul＠paulweiss.info 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

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Wikimania, Grace Hopper, Open Source Bridge, & Allied Media proposal deadlines
by Sumana Harihareswara 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Now's a good time to get your proposals in for Wikimania 2013 (Hong Kong, 7-11 August). Right now I see 2 proposals concerning the gender gap <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions>, and I'm guessing there could be more. What I personally would be most interested in seeing would be skillshare to show people how to be better allies to women on the projects, both onwiki and via other channels (including face-to-face). <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> The deadline is 30 April. I also want to draw your attention to Open Source Bridge, Allied Media Conference, and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. These are conferences that are interested in empowering everyone, using technology, and have a feminist social-justice focus. If you lead a session at one of these conferences, you are eligible for Wikimedia Foundation's Participation Support subsidies <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support>. Last year, the open source and Wikipedia sessions at Grace Hopper and Open Source Bridge were very well-attended. Allied Media Conference: 20-23 June, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 8 March. http://alliedmedia.org/news/2013/02/01/its-time-propose-session-amc2013-rea… Open Source Bridge: 18-21 June, Portland, Oregon, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 9 March. http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/01/2013-call-for-proposals-now-open/ Grace Hopper: 2-5 October, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 15 March. http://gracehopper.org/2013/participate/call-for-participation/ Go ahead and submit stuff! And remember, it's okay to submit multiple proposals per conference. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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