On 9/10/2012 6:25 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Valerie Aurora
<valerie(a)adainitiative.org <mailto:valerie@adainitiative.org>> wrote:
I don't know enough about Wikipedia conventions to talk about this
specific topic, but I can talk about the value of lists of "women in
X." When we have few role models because there are few women in a
field, one of the ways to increase women's participation is to show
women or girls considering joining examples of women who are part of
the field.
-VAL
Hi Val, I agree, and although I don't have my user page listed in any
other categories, I added it to this category yesterday when I saw the
cat was up for deletion. It's looking a little sparse at the moment,
with just eight entries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Wikipedians
It would be wonderful if women would start adding themselves so that
we get a good overview of how many women are active. You can do it
either by adding [[Category:Female Wikipedians]] to the bottom of your
user page, or by adding to your user page one of the user boxes listed
on the category page.
Sarah
*I second. Also note that I just put it in Category:Wikipedians
yesterday, so only now is it available for those who think to put
themselves in any category and thus happen to find Category:Wikipedians
. I don't think I did it myself til I'd been editing around 3 -4 years.
And of course there are women who don't want to be hassled by admitting
they are women. There certainly was a point at which I wish I hadn't
made it clear. (Still ambivalent about using real name.)
CM