Very cool! Good luck to you. Just a quick response to the first question:
I definitely think it's doable to get 5 editors to stay on for 5 months. The
evaluation team should be able to help you with tools and guides to measure this.
My advice is to use the person-to-person method. That is, you invite a few female friends.
Some will find it interesting. Make sure that it's a friendly space they come to. And
some will come back. If you're a few regular people doing this, 5 should be on the low
side for the Netherlands. We have about done it in Sweden without much effort, and with a
little effort we could make it 10 (it's just been a busy time for me and a few others
in the regular group).
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
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Jimmy Wales
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:43:58 +0100
From: jane023(a)gmail.com
To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
Hi Lennart and others,We had a short meeting yesterday in Utrecht to discuss the Gendergap
and also our plans for the upcoming Art & Feminism weekend of 7 & 8 March.
Wikimedia Netherlands will co-host an edit-a-thon at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum and we
also plan to host an international writing challenge lasting the entire weekend, directed
at experienced "challenge writers". Since WMNL has also set aside some funding
for Gendergap this year, we were also talking about other plans. One thing that we decided
to do is to set aside one "Wiki-Saturday" per month for the Gendergap in all of
its Wiki(p/m)edia aspects, but with the emphasis on the social side of things as an
in-person meetup. We will be announcing the "Saturday meetups" in the Stedelijk
venue.
Based on our meeting, I have done some searching around and have the following
questions:1) I was wondering if anyone had any measurable outcomes for such an investment
of time and funds? We tentatively had a year-target of attracting 5 new women editors that
remain active for at least 5 months. I have doubts whether this is measurable or even
realistic.Thoughts anyone?2) I noticed that though we seem to have lots of women artists
on Wikipedia, we are still missing articles about their artworks or list articles of
their artworks. In a category on the English Wikipedia for "Lists of works of
art" I noted an odd mish-mash of lists which include lists of works by 66 men and
only 4 women (I just created the list for Judith Leyster and hope to make list articles
for two more Dutch women artists before March). Would anyone here be interested in
building a list of their favorite female artist? This will be a nice-to-have for 7&8
March writers browsing for something to write about, as most museums have works by women
in the collections, but they are just not on show. If a work is in one of the national
museums it is encyclopedic enough to write about.
Thanks in advance!Jane
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrandsson(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
My draft is now up at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Regular_editathons_in…
Anyone who wants to help with grammar and other language stuff (English is my second
language after all), feel free. Your help is appreciated.
Best wishes,
Lennart Guldbrandsson
070 - 207 80 05
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Jimmy Wales
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 08:17:27 -0800
From: rosiestep.wiki(a)gmail.com
To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
Big smile on my face... I love the idea of regular editathons. I've never been to a
knitting/quilting circle but I imagine a group of women editing Wikipedia would have a
similar look and feel. Piggy-backing on the WMDC "salons" might be a way forward
as facilitating an "editathon" requires quite a bit of the facilitator, while a
regularly scheduled editing-circle or editing-salon wouldn't require a facilitator at
all. I think that would be easier to sustain and replicate.
-Rosieuser:Rosiestep
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