Thanks for that list Sarah and congrats Sue!  I’ve begun working on some sub-stubs for the red linked women.  I plan on circling back to  expand them once I have turned all of the links blue.  I’ve also created a new category (Category:Forbes most powerful women).  I’m adding the articles I create to that, but I’ve decided to hold off on adding more until someone else comments on it.

From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Stierch
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:01 PM
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
Subject: [Gendergap] Forbes Top 100 Women List

Hi everyone,

Forbes Magazine released their list of the world's 100 most powerful women. Wikimedia Foundation's own Sue Gardner is #70! Very very cool :)  Congratulations Sue!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2012/08/22/the-worlds-100-most-powerful-women-2012-this-year-its-all-about-impact/

For fun, I made a not so glamorous list of the top 100 women and their article quality, you can see it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch/100power

Starts win the award for the most, at 52. The three FA's are popular culture icons (the Queen of England, Angelina Jolie and JK Rowling - the latter Sue beat out on the list ;D ).  Two of the top five are in that area (...as is Sue's article). You'll also find a few red links, and who knows what this list looks like in your preferred language or project.

A nice starting point for edit-a-thons, personal wiki-agendas, and improvement.

-Sarah

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