Hi Caroline!

On 1/31/12 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote:
Hi,

This is a great idea :) We can try to have a female-related article in the first page of wikipedias. (I've just asked for fr-wikipedia).

Glad you're excited - do you think Wikimedia France will sponsor the event perhaps? (Giveaways, funding) You know what would be cool - if we could also try to coordinate some translations of articles into other languages after or during the event. I've participated in events where the event was in Mexico, and we collaborated on Etherpad to write articles and translate them. It was really cool and a lot of good content came from it! But that's just an idea, for use now or to table for later!

You're lucky to have Women's History Month, in France we have "Women's Rights Day"', often translated in mass medias to "Woman's Day'" and, as women, we are always told the oh so funny joke "don't do the laundry today.... Leave it for tommorow". -_-"


Ugh, yes, I've heard jokes like that before regarding doing laundry. So let's turn that into "Do my laundry for me, we're editing Wikipedia!" :) I do know that Women's History Day is March 8, but the US and the UK decided to make it month long. It is called "International Women's Month," so I decided to say let's own it no matter where we are!

I'll try to involve feminist organizations in the Wikipedia edition, how writting women's history is a feminist act, etc. Anyone has the experience of dealing with teaching NPOV to polical organizations  and if it ends well ?

That sounds wonderful. I do know a few people who have worked with NPOV and political groups. [[User:Carolmooredc]] has recently put on an event that worked with advocacy groups and taught them how to edit neutrally. http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/One_day_training  The talk page also has her input from the recent event. I have no clue if this would be helpful, but it's a PowerPoint I presented to the Smithsonian Institution staff about NPOV and COI editing: http://www.slideshare.net/SarahStierch/sourcing-original-research-notability-conflict-of-interest-wikipedia-glam

I'm pretty sure that [[ User:Trizek]], [[User:Jean-Frédéric]], [[User:Remi_Mathis]] and [[ User:Serein]] have some experience as well. They're pretty active in GLAM and perhaps they have some French resources.

Even if we take this off list or develop something on Wiki, let me know how I can help! Thanks Caroline for carrying the French torch!

Sarah

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Sarah Stierch
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