Reminder - April 30th is the last day to get a Wikimania 2013 proposal
in. And please do mark your interest in specific proposals by others --
it helps the committee make the schedule.
Thanks,
Sumana
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Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for participation ends soon & relevant input
request
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:57:16 +0200
From: Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan <yuyu(a)wikimedia.hk>
Reply-To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimaniacs and non-Wikimaniacs
As most of you may aware that
the CFP for this year will end soon, just almost exactly one week later
So if you're planing to have your submission,
and not yet finish yours
please take your time to get it done.
We would also like you to express if you are interested in attend any of
the submission. [1]
Such input will be really helpful for our Program committee members to
decide accepting which proposals and
also where should we facilitate these sessions, if it is accepted.
Thx v much!
[1] http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Submissions
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The Postcolonial Digital Humanities tumbler did a great comic on this:
http://dhpoco.tumblr.com/post/48828130277/were-full-maybe-you-should-join-t
he-american
All best,
Melanie
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Melanie Kill
Asst Professor of English
University of Maryland
2119 Tawes Hall
College Park, MD 20742
mkill(a)umd.edu | @melaniekill
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:21:36 -0700
>From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
>To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
> <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [Gendergap] [PRESS] Women Novelists Wikipedia: Female Authors
> Absent From Site's 'American Novelists' Page?
>Message-ID: <51786900.50904(a)gmail.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
>
>
> From The Huffington Post
>
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/women-novelists-wikipedia-female-
>authors-american_n_3149345.html
>
>Attention female authors: you may be being segregated from your male
>peers on Wikipedia. On the online encyclopedia's "American Novelists"
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_novelists> page, women
>authors are hard to find. Instead they have been filed primarily under
>"American Women Novelists."
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_women_novelists>
>
>/Vanity Fair/ contributing editor Elissa Schappell
><https://twitter.com/ElissaSchappell> made this observation and posted
>on Facebook Wednesday:
>
> Women Writers take heed, you are being erased on Wikipedia. It would
> appear that in order to make room for male writers, women novelists
> (such as Amy Tan, Harper Lee, Donna Tartt and 300 others) have been
> moved off the "American Novelists" page and into the "American Women
> Novelists" category. Not the back of the bus, or the kiddie table
> exactly--except of course--when you google "American Novelists" the
> list that appears is almost exclusively men (3,387 men). The
> explanation on the pages is that the list of American Novelists is
> too long, therefore sub-categories are necessary.
> Idea: What about, "American Novelists with Penises" "American
> Novelists Who Are Vastly Over-Rated and Over-Paid" or "American
> Novelists Who Aren't Being Read But Should Be" (Here you'd find a
> lot of women, people of color...)
>
> Want to see where you're sitting for eternity? Take a peek.
>
>A disclaimer at the top of the American Novelists page reads, "This
>category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
>It should directly contain very few, if any, articles and should mainly
>contain subcategories." Schappell suggests that Wikipedia dealt with
>this space issue by moving the female authors off the page.
>
>The Huffington Post reached out to Wikipedia for a response to
>Schappell's claims but so far has not heard back.
>
>This is far from the first time that someone has expressed ire over the
>"second-class" treatment of female authors. VIDA, an organization
>dedicated to women in literary arts, pointed out that in 2011 the New
>York Times Book Review <http://www.vidaweb.org/the-2011-count> printed
>reviews of 520 male authors' books and only 273 books written by women.
>
>In a recent blog post on The Huffington Post, author Liza Palmer wrote
>about thedouble standard that exists
><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liza-palmer/all-books-are-equal-but-s_b_313
>1794.html> in
>the literary world:
>
> All too often, when a woman writes a book about family and
> relationships the reader will sigh that she felt the narrator's
> inner monologues were "whiny" whereas when a male writer
> contemplates these same topics he is being "introspective." If a
> female writer uses humor in her dialogue she will be dismissed as
> "snarky", whereas if a male writer uses humor, he has a "biting
> wit." So called chick-lit writers get pinned with "predictable"
> endings, while male writers writing about the same topics have
> endings that are "satisfying."
>
>Perhaps it's time that Wikipedia realized that both men and women are
>great American novelists and should show up when you search for them.
>
>
>--
>/Sarah Stierch/*
>Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation Community Coordinator
>*Donate
><http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&ut
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>
From The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/women-novelists-wikipedia-female-a…
Attention female authors: you may be being segregated from your male
peers on Wikipedia. On the online encyclopedia's "American Novelists"
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_novelists> page, women
authors are hard to find. Instead they have been filed primarily under
"American Women Novelists."
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_women_novelists>
/Vanity Fair/ contributing editor Elissa Schappell
<https://twitter.com/ElissaSchappell> made this observation and posted
on Facebook Wednesday:
Women Writers take heed, you are being erased on Wikipedia. It would
appear that in order to make room for male writers, women novelists
(such as Amy Tan, Harper Lee, Donna Tartt and 300 others) have been
moved off the "American Novelists" page and into the "American Women
Novelists" category. Not the back of the bus, or the kiddie table
exactly--except of course--when you google "American Novelists" the
list that appears is almost exclusively men (3,387 men). The
explanation on the pages is that the list of American Novelists is
too long, therefore sub-categories are necessary.
Idea: What about, "American Novelists with Penises" "American
Novelists Who Are Vastly Over-Rated and Over-Paid" or "American
Novelists Who Aren't Being Read But Should Be" (Here you'd find a
lot of women, people of color...)
Want to see where you're sitting for eternity? Take a peek.
A disclaimer at the top of the American Novelists page reads, "This
category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
It should directly contain very few, if any, articles and should mainly
contain subcategories." Schappell suggests that Wikipedia dealt with
this space issue by moving the female authors off the page.
The Huffington Post reached out to Wikipedia for a response to
Schappell's claims but so far has not heard back.
This is far from the first time that someone has expressed ire over the
"second-class" treatment of female authors. VIDA, an organization
dedicated to women in literary arts, pointed out that in 2011 the New
York Times Book Review <http://www.vidaweb.org/the-2011-count> printed
reviews of 520 male authors' books and only 273 books written by women.
In a recent blog post on The Huffington Post, author Liza Palmer wrote
about thedouble standard that exists
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liza-palmer/all-books-are-equal-but-s_b_31317…> in
the literary world:
All too often, when a woman writes a book about family and
relationships the reader will sigh that she felt the narrator's
inner monologues were "whiny" whereas when a male writer
contemplates these same topics he is being "introspective." If a
female writer uses humor in her dialogue she will be dismissed as
"snarky", whereas if a male writer uses humor, he has a "biting
wit." So called chick-lit writers get pinned with "predictable"
endings, while male writers writing about the same topics have
endings that are "satisfying."
Perhaps it's time that Wikipedia realized that both men and women are
great American novelists and should show up when you search for them.
--
/Sarah Stierch/*
Wikimedia Foundation Program Evaluation Community Coordinator
*Donate
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Donate/en&utm_source=&utm_…>
today and keep it free!
Visit me on Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch>!
Please see below.
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From: *Prakash Neupane* <nprkshn(a)gmail.com <mailto:nprkshn@gmail.com>>
Date: 2013/4/23
Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] OKFN Nepal is organizing editathon Girls in
ICT DAy
To: Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List
<okfn-local-coord(a)lists.okfn.org <mailto:okfn-local-coord@lists.okfn.org>>
Hey Guys,
On the occasion of *Girls in ICT Day*, */Wikimedia Nepal/(Wiki Women)
*with coordination of /*Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal*/ is organizing
editathon in Sunway International Business School for girls. We are
targeting 30 girls to make edit in nepali wikipedia specially in girls
related content.
Event Date: 25 April 2013
Venue: Sunway International Business School, Mid Baneshwor (near be APEX
clg/White House Clg)
Time: 8am-12pm
Thanks
Prakash Neupane
Ambassador
OKFN Nepal
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It’s not directly related to what we do here, but I thought that today’s
xkcd strip gets the message just right for the broader goal of what we’re
all trying to do, particularly in the STEM field:
http://xkcd.com/1202/
The rollover text is good too.
Since Randall licenses his strips under CC-BY-NC-2.5, feel free to print it
out at whatever size you like. This would make a great classroom-wall
poster; I can easily imagine it on a lot of faculty office doors as well.
Daniel Case
Hi, Sarah! This list is the second place I've posted the request- I originally posted on the WikiWomen's Collaborative Facebook page. Someone on there suggested that I write a blog post and also send my request to this list. It took me a long time to finally write the blog post, and now I can't figure out what to do with it! The good news is that I've heard from two people as a result of posting here, and one of them seems like they might be willing to help us out after they move to the area this summer. The other lives further away and indicated that they would be happy to provide some virtual support. It would be nice to have two people, but I'm surprised and satisfied with the response I've already received. Thank you gendergap listserv!
Kelsey Smith
Adult Services Librarian
Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: 360-352-0595
www.TRL.org
Currently reading: Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:35:09 -0700
From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
<gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] seeking wiki-ninja for Wikipedia Loves
Libraries Local History Project
Message-ID:
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Hi Kelsey -
Is this listed publicly anywhere online? On a blog or as a job/internship
description ?
-Sarah
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:47 AM, <ksmith(a)trl.org> wrote:
> Are you a Wikipedia content creator with a love of history, living in the
> area of Olympia, Washington? The Olympia Timberland Library is desperately
> seeking a Wiki-Ninja to help us develop and maintain our Wikipedia Loves
> Libraries Local History project. Our goal is to have regular editing and
> content creation sessions at the library, with the goal of improving
> articles related to the history of Olympia, Washington. We have a whole
> crew of enthusiastic local history buffs who are interested in helping with
> this project, but we are missing the key element to our success- someone
> with more Wikipedia knowledge than us who is willing to share their
> expertise. Our ideal Wiki-Ninja would be available for about 3-4 hours on
> Friday evenings 6 times per year (every other month) to teach the basics of
> writing and editing in Wikipedia. We can compensate for any travel expenses.
> Please get in touch if you have any questions or are interested in our
> Wikipedia Loves Libraries Local History Project-
>
>
>
> Kelsey Smith
> Adult Services Librarian
> Olympia Timberland Library
> 313 8th Ave SE
> Olympia, WA 98501
> Phone: 360-352-0595
> www.TRL.org<http://www.trl.org/>
>
> Currently reading: the Magician King by Lev Grossman
>
*Sarah Stierch*
*Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedia*
*www.sarahstierch.com*
Are you a Wikipedia content creator with a love of history, living in the area of Olympia, Washington? The Olympia Timberland Library is desperately seeking a Wiki-Ninja to help us develop and maintain our Wikipedia Loves Libraries Local History project. Our goal is to have regular editing and content creation sessions at the library, with the goal of improving articles related to the history of Olympia, Washington. We have a whole crew of enthusiastic local history buffs who are interested in helping with this project, but we are missing the key element to our success- someone with more Wikipedia knowledge than us who is willing to share their expertise. Our ideal Wiki-Ninja would be available for about 3-4 hours on Friday evenings 6 times per year (every other month) to teach the basics of writing and editing in Wikipedia. We can compensate for any travel expenses.
Please get in touch if you have any questions or are interested in our Wikipedia Loves Libraries Local History Project-
Kelsey Smith
Adult Services Librarian
Olympia Timberland Library
313 8th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: 360-352-0595
www.TRL.org<http://www.trl.org/>
Currently reading: the Magician King by Lev Grossman
Forwarding to this list, as this may be of interest to some of our readers
and regular participants.
Risker
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From: Fae <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Date: 16 April 2013 11:29
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Are you interested in being interviewed about your
LGBT experience with Wikimedia?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Chapters general discussions <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch>
Cc: lgbt <lgbt(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
While I am at the Wikimedia conference in Milan, meeting a wide selection
of Wikimedians from around the globe, I would love to use the opportunity
to start recording a few short interviews with LGBT/queer/gay contributors
about their experiences on our projects.
I am happy to keep your identity confidential, though I would like to be
free to publish transcripts after they are reviewed with you and anything
you are no longer happy with is deleted.
If you would like to meet up with me for a short chat during the
conference, please do either track me down or send me an email and we will
try to coordinate a time.
For those not at Milan, I would love to chat. Drop me an email and perhaps
we can arrange a Skype call and pen a few notes together on etherpad at
some point.
If I can get a few interviews on record, I would like to eventually write a
short piece for Wikinews about what the culture on different Wikimedia
projects feels like for both open LGBT contributors or those that prefer to
keep their sexual orientation (or gender) a secret. There's no hurry, I'm
not a fast article writer. :-D
Cheers,
Fae
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