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.361483174749.189413.361481469749&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_reply), 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

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