There's a comedian / political activist in the UK, Rob Newman,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Newman_%28comedian%29 who talked about his political activism and how he would talk to other activists, saying, we should do this and that, they would answer, "That's a great idea, why don't you do that?" It's a fair point.
The thing is I'm based in the North of England and the last local meet-up had six people sign up to it and three of them added "hopefully I'll be able to make it". I'm not quite sure what sort of attendance a feminism+ [whatever] would have up here.*
The women in leadership stuff sounds interesting though.
Marie
> * Please no-one suggest a London edit-a-thon, London-centrism is a pet hate of mine.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:25:48 -0500
From: risker.wp@gmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Is that you I see volunteering to organize one, Marie? :-)
I suspect that is the reason, to be honest - nobody specifically taking the bull by the horns. It requires interest in the subject, and a willingness and ability to organize the events. Economics is not a particularly popular subject (comparatively speaking) in the Wikipedia world - the entire topic area could use a lot of work, not just the aspects relating to women or feminism - and like anything else, the smaller the number of people participating in a topic area, the less likely there will be individuals who take on the challenge of organizing collaborative events.
As to Women in Politics, I think this is probably (at least for women in Western countries) one of the better covered areas, simply because most of our major language Wikipedias treat all politicians at what they consider to be notable levels of government in pretty much the same way, using essentially standardized formats.
Risker/Anne
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