Hi Sarah
I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian participated and what she shared about
editing Wikipedia.
about a. thank you, I will ask her for her own opinion, and also her colleague, living against the same double/triple possible discrimination factor if I may say so, who wrote me today that since this workshop she now considering Wikipedia seriously - and I have already seen very good editing results, too! Today she was suggesting we build a Wikipedia 2 for women only - there must have been a reason, will find out
about part b. the specifics that the first mentioned colleague shared with us in the workshop I am now finding out more about, listening to Wikipedia results of the image-to-sound transcript software that is in use with my colleagues - then I need to find the appropriate WP forum/page for suggesting improvements (and I have not doubt there is a need for action for real inclusion, "accessibility" and "usability") - I am a real newcomer to this, any WP-specific suggestions where I might go with the new insights?
thank you for bringing this up, Sarah, highly appreciated
Claudia
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:24:54 -0700, Sarah Stierch wrote
On 5/31/12 11:45 PM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
Hi Sarah, hi @all,
thank you, Sarah, for this new thread and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like the teahouse :-)
Yeah! Glad you like the Teahouse. I can't wait to share the data with people and explore more ways to get it in the hands of women who need help editing!
at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians who meet over the extended weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this year for another fabulous
self-
organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural programme and a
manifestation in
downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one of the acknowledged
hallmarks
of this meeting, called "LFT" (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring meetings)
I love how you always share information about these gatherings. I do think that German lesbians surely must be the most active when it comes to intellectual gatherings, merely based on all the activities you share with us.
for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and spontaneously co-moderated by a visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants
Wow. I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia.
for a short round-up of what "Lesbenfruehling" meetings are doing to promote transparency and openness also in other respects: the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for lesbians in neighbouring
countries
like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since 2004), Hungary (EU member
since
- and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/ that is human rights-
related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and Hungary on servere
downsides,
with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and transphobic bills that we are fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our panel speakers from Croatia
belong to
the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir "Le Zbor" (www.lezbor.com) and the last song of
their
evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had workshops dedicated more specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on an initiative to finally put up
a
specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration camp Ravensbrueck that was women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian individuals that died
because
of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not want to leave the country
early
enough in those years).
Wow, sounds really moving and powerful the work that people are aiming towards. The unification of these womyn is pretty amazing!
this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture of openness that I think is
close to
what Wikipedia is aiming at, too,
Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing as always Claudia!
-Sarah
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thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net