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¬if_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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