I'll be keeping an eye on the articles, as well as following up with the
participants - I ended up knowing most of them personally from other
contexts, anyway. From talking to them, I suspect this event will have
resulted in the recruitment of at least a couple of long-term content
editors :) I was especially surprised that Margaret Davies didn't have an
article already - besides for her co-op work (well, really as a part of it) she
was also instrumental in reforming British divorce law, and her work was
generally regarded as the critical catalyst for the legal changes that
allowed British women access to divorce on an equal basis to that of
British men.
----
Kevin Gorman
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Kevin,
Thanks for posting! Is anyone keeping an eye on developments with
these articles or any list of redlinks you may have created in
discussions? It would be really helpful to see how this develops over
time and especially helpful to find out if any of these women become
editors in the long run.
Jane
2013/4/7, Kevin Gorman <kgorman(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi all -
Today I helped run an editathon at an all-women's cooperative in
Berkeley.
We attracted maybe fifteen or twenty people over
the course of the day,
and
focused most of our editing on prominent
historical women active in the
cooperative movement. I think we created a number of neat articles,
although they all have a lot of room for improvement (which hopefully
will
be coming in part from our new editors -
engagement was much higher than
I
an
awful lot available in books. The sources we had
today would've allowed
us
to expand the articles a lot further than we did,
but we were operating
under some time constraints (plus the whole teaching people wikicode
part.)
If anyone is further interested in expanding
these articles (especially
those about Alice, Margaret, or Catherine,) there's a huge amount of
information available about them in these books:
*The woman with the basket; the history of the Women's Co-operative
Guild,
1883-1927. By Catherine Webb
*The matriarchs of England's cooperative movement : a study in gender
politics and female leadership, 1883-1921 / Barbara J. Blaszak
*Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women's Co-operative
Guild, 1880s to the Second War Main
*Caring & Sharing, the Centenary History of the Co-operative Women's
Guild
As well as information in a decent number of other books, though not
much available online. If anyone feels like improving these articles
further, it'd be awesome, and we'll get to improving them ourselves
eventually otherwise :)
Just figured I'd share some happiness,
Kevin Gorman
_______________________________________________
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap