Fabulous news Lennart!
I have shared the recent press on our WikiWomen Collab Facebook and Twitter.
I'd love to get a blog - in English and Swedish, for our new WikiWomen blog[1] after the event takes place, with photographs.
I am impressed for sure, and cannot wait to ride this energy for WikiWomen's History Month in March! :)
-Sarah
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Blogs
On 10/9/12 7:04 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson wrote:
Hello,
Something very cool has begun to happen in Sweden. Since the largest daily newspaper wrote about the Ada Lovelace editathon (http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/svenska-wikipeida-skapar-dag-for-kvinnoartiklar), we have seen a buzz in the social media.
A Swedish non-profit, Rättviseförmedlingen (the Fairness Bureau), which is devoted to making it easier for media to find female experts, have endorsed it (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151273255534750&set=a.361483174...), which so far has been shared several dozen times on Facebook. That has also inspired other to send out invites to women across the internet. One example is this invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/525660827448094/
It has been sent out to 4,500 persons, mostly women, and so far 593 have accepted the invitation.
Just to give you some perspective: according to the statistics (http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm), there are about 800 active users (+5 edits) this month on Swedish Wikipedia. So, potentially, women could out-edit men on that day!
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
Personlig blogg http://mrchapel.wordpress.com Presentation http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%c3%83%c2%a4ndare:Hannibal
Mobil: 070 - 207 80 05
Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap