Hi all,

Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article.  I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status.  I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.

Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence.  Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me.  She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process  as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography.  She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images.  I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape.  She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it."  Which eventually I did.  We suffered a terrible loss this year.

I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP.  Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me.  It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.

Christine/Figureskatingfan.  

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder <ywelinder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Risker, 

That is awesome!  I was really pleased to see that too.  Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!

On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email. 

Best, 

Yana

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:

Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women.  Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffic_report

A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.

Risker/Anne

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