British aviator Yvonne Sintes made a long career in aviation: she was the
first female airtraffic controller and first female Captain in the UK.
Born in South Africa.
Please improve the draft article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yvonne_Sintes
Especially with timelines of her family life & career (which might be found
in her autobiography, ""Trailblazer in Flight").
-Jodi
I am now on digest mode with this mailing list. The traffic is often too
much for me and the voice of this list is frustrating for me
sometimes..so... remember that please :)
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I have been asked to share my thoughts by many people this morning on the
internet, here they are:
I have been editing Wikipedia for ten years and i have no clue what has
been going on with the feminist/gamergate thing. As one of the more well
known female editors i have cut back heavily on my involvement after last
year. I don't know any of the editors, personally, who "went to court" but
I have seen this stuff happen to both sides in men's rights articles in the
past.
After reviewing the Arbcom case, I don't even know who got the idea that
any of the contributing editors are feminist, per se. No one even mentions
the word, except once, when describing a subject that was "slandered" in
the gamer gate article(s).
I also don't think that the edits made to the article are overwhelmingly
feminist in nature. It appears to be just a bunch of people editing the
Wikipedia article to protect it from being a hot mess of 4chan junk.
Note: most of the "in trouble" editor's aren't that productive at
contributing feminist content to Wikipedia. I have interacted with only
four of them - Black Kite, Future Perfect at Sunrise, TarainDC and Bilby -
only one is a female in real life and I know her from GLAM editing
projects. She is the only one that I know who has actively edited feminist
topics prior to this. I actually consider Bilby an ally, but, I have never
heard him or any of the other editors blatantly identify themselves as
feminists.
>From what I know, only one of the editors on the entire "trial list"
identifies out as a female.
So, it appears a bunch of editors trying to keep the article clean had to
run through the gauntlet. I don't think the end of the world has come to
any of their lives - they have plenty of other subjects of interest to keep
them busy on Wikipedia.
I also think people invest *too much* into Wikipedia to where it's what
they live for..per se. I see a lot of that in this case, and many others
that "go to court" on Wikipedia. I stopped participating on Wikipedia when
it screwed up my personal life so much, and I lost sleep over it. So...
that's my advice to anyone involved in that Arbcom case :) Go on vacation
and get another hobby and edit Wikipedia when you feel like it. It isn't
life. It's just an encyclopedia.
Sarah
Hi all,
(Pardon the cross-posting)
Starting today, we want to show Wikimedia some love in a very special way:
talking about diversity! [1]
Diversity in Wikimedia projects is key to achieve our shared vision: that
anyone can contribute in the sum of all knowledge. We know many efforts
have been made to bridge many gaps.
Have you:
* preserved your cultural or national history through photo contests and
editing events?
* worked to enrich a particular language or cultural group on Wikimedia?
* studied diversity issues in online communities?
_What have you learned when trying to encourage diversity on Wikimedia?_
The Learning and Evaluation team invites all community members to share
what they know about bringing diversity on Wikimedia projects. This
initiative seeks to create a body of knowledge around diversity outcomes
for events, projects and programs, in a way to give support to
Grantmaking’s Inspire Campaign (coming up the first week of March). If you
worked to make Wikimedia projects more diverse, in content or community, what
has worked for you? what has not worked? Share what you know with the world!
There are multiple ways to engage:
1. Share a problem
2. Share a solution
3. Endorse problems and solutions to vote them up in importance
4. Writing a Learning Pattern (that addresses any of the problems/solutions
shared)
We will be awarding our brand new L&E Barnstars[2] to contributors during
this special campaign =)
Visit the campaign page [1] to contribute and discuss, and if you are
twitter user, use #ILoveDiversity to promote the campaign for others to
participate.
Happy editing!
*María Cruz * \\ Community Coordinator, PE&D Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Project/Diversity_…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_and_Evaluation_barnsta…
Post : Wikimedia at FOSDEM 2015
URL : http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/11/wikimedia-at-fosdem-2015/
Posted : February 11, 2015 at 17:39
Author : asherman2015
Tags : developers, FOSDEM, free software, software, Wikimedia,
Wikipedia
Categories : Chapters, Events, Technology
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brussels-FOSDEM_2015_(12).jpg
The Wikimedia Foundation hosted a booth at FOSDEM 2015, the annual Free
and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting. Photo (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brussels-FOSDEM_2015_(12).jpg )
by Romaine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine ) , licensed
under CC0 1.0 (
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en ) .
FOSDEM 2015 ( https://fosdem.org/2015/ ) , the annual Free and Open
Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, took place in Brussels,
Belgium, from January 31 to February 1, 2015. The Wikimedia Foundation
hosted a booth throughout that conference, in collaboration with
Wikimedia Belgium, the Wikimedia Shop ( http://shop.wikimedia.org/ )
and Wikimedia Deutschland.
We are happy to say that our Wikimedia booth received a lot of attention
at FOSDEM. We experienced a remarkable turnout by women editors, despite
our gender gap ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap ) issues.
As a result, we learned more about how our female editors like to engage
when creating content on Wikipedia: it appears that in-person
collaborations and social settings appeal to female contributors and
keep them coming back.
Based on these and other conversations, it seems these best practices
could increase gender diversity:
* host more face-to-face workshops or edit-a-thons, where participants
are encouraged to interact with each other in person.
* develop social software that makes it easy for users to form groups,
so they are not feeling alone and can work with others in their group.
* provide groups with a central discussion page, recent changes showing
the activity of other group members, as well as a way to create tasks,
and host a wish list.
Our FOSDEM booth was originally focused on providing information about
Wikimedia and Wikipedia, but we had many questions about Wikidata (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata ) and MediaWiki (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki ) . Our software developers
were able to answer most of these questions, but next year we plan to
have more materials to cover these topics, due to this high level of
interest. We also gave free Wikimedia T-shirts, water bottles or hoodies
to participants who tweeted about the shop -- or who demonstrated that
they had edited Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects.
Quim Gil and Andre Klapper made a presentation about our Phabricator
collaboration software: “Wikimedia adopts Phabricator, deprecates seven
infrastructure tools – First hand experience from big free software
project on a complex migration”. Read more about their presentation (
https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/wikimedia_adopts_phabricator/ )
and check out their slides (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phab-FOSDEM2014-clean.pdf ) .
FOSDEM 2015 ( https://fosdem.org/2015/ ) was a very productive
conference, and we hope that next year will be even better. Thanks again
to Quim and Andre for presenting. And thanks to everyone who showed up
at the booth to ask questions and share their insights. We appreciate
all your support and interest in our cause.
Romaine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine ) , board member
of Wikimedia Belgium
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Hi everyone,
Please help me create lists and categories on the English Wikipedia that
may inspire people to write articles on their own native Wikipedia during
the challenge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Challenge
Such lists and categories can be used as resources for potential
contributors to the Gendergap area of Art & Feminism articles at any time,
not just for this weekend-a-thon.
Gendergap articles in terms of art are female artist biographies, but also
articles about works of art by women, art exhibitions about for or by
women, female art collectors, female museum founders, etc.
I have been working to add a few lists to this category which is
overwhelmingly male:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_works_of_art
I have also been working on adding a few categories to this category, again
overwhelmingly male:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_by_artist
As a reminder, most articles about female artists on the English Wikipedia
are about artists who lived and worked in the US. The story of women in the
arts is way more international than that. Help me help others tell this
story!
Some stats according to the data from the CLARA database of the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, as indexed on Mix-n-Match thanks to Magnus
here:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/
Total number of Wikidata items matched to Clara entries for women: 2141
Total number of Wikidata items with sitelinks to enwiki 1789
dewiki 782
frwiki 623
eswiki 403
ruwiki 311
itwiki 296
nlwiki 286
svwiki 284
plwiki 230
Happy editing,
Jane
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