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."
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><<
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><<
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.
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
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