Hello everyone,<br><br>My name is Evangeline Han and I am currently residing in Malaysia. I edit Wikipedia under the username Bejinhan. I joined Wikipedia in June 2009 and have been editing actively since then. Irl, I am a student and journalist intern.<br>
<br>The reason why I joined this mailing list is because I was appalled at the stats of female contributors. 13% only? I want to help improve that number. <br><br>Also, If we can have a goal/aim of a percentage we want to reach, that would be really great.<br>
<br>Looking forward to collaborating more on this project.<br><br>Best,<br>Evangeline Han<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Sydney Poore <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sydney.poore@gmail.com">sydney.poore@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Nina, (and Aude, Sue, Erik, Sarah, and Fred)<br><br>Looking through the archives I see fuller introductions are in order so I&#39;ll explain my history with Wikimedia Projects and my reason for joining.<br>
<br><br>My name is Sydney Poore. I currently spend most of my time in Florida. By eduction is as a Registered Nurse and Sociology.<br>
<br>In the past I worked as Obstetrical and Gynecological Registered Nurse.  More recently my husband and I bought a Merle Norman Cosmetic Store and an art gallery in St. Augustine Florida. <br><br>I began editing Wikipedia English in 2005 and later started contributing to other projects, primarily Commons, English Wikiquote and Wikisource.<br>

<br>As a volunteer I&#39;ve gotten very involved with the administrative side of English Wikipedia and to a lesser extent the Wikimedia Foundation. I&#39;ve helped out by serving time on the Wikipedia English Arbitration Committee and  hold Oversight and Checkuser tools there. Also have assisted with the WMF Strategic Planning Project as facilitator of the Community Health task force (which looked at ways to help the WMF projects grow and thrive). Currently I hold a seat on the WMF Ombudsmen Commission (reviews complaints about the violation of the WMF privacy policy). <br>

<br>My frequent contact with women in my daily work is in sharp contrast to 
the number of women who I encounter on WMF Projects and I think this 
makes me especially sensitive to the gender issue. <br><font color="#888888"><br> Sydney<br><br><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Nina Wikipedia <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nina.wikipedia@gmail.com" target="_blank">nina.wikipedia@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">I am Nina (Nina-no) from Norway. I am an Art historian, but have also Sociology and Cultural studies  in my background. I have been on the Norwegian Wikipedia from  2004.<div>

<br></div><div>Yesterday we had was stories in the press in Norway about motherblogers , and i am wondering why mothers are writing in blogs and Facebook and not on Wikipedia. I think we have to ask this question and try to find the answer.</div>

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<div><div>Nina </div><div><a href="mailto:nina.wikipedia@gmail.com" target="_blank">nina.wikipedia@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><br><br>
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<br><div><div>Den 1. feb. 2011 kl. 13.44 skrev Sydney Poore:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div><p>Joined the mailing list today.  I have a long standing interest in the gender gap on Wikimedia projects.  </p>

<p>My view is that the gender gap is real (based on stats and experience ) and harming our content because of the biases introduced from a male heavy culture.</p><p>Sydney. Poore<br>
(FloNight)<br>
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