Well, I hope you will all be delighted to hear I have just pushed out some of the first articles created as part of Australian Women of Neuroscience 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_Women_of_Neuroscience_2014

I didn’t support the event personally so I am not quite sure why the articles were still sitting user space months after the event, but the organiser just asked me to help get them live so I did a bit of a clean-up and moved them into the mainspace. I believe there are a lot more articles but waiting for the organiser to point me at them.

While these kind of edit-a-thons don’t seem to create ongoing editors, they do at least create some content in under-represented areas: women scientists in this case.

Kerry

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From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2015 2:24 PM
To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participationof women within Wikimedia projects.
Subject: [Gendergap] Some motivation (:

Quoted from the publicly logged #wikimedia-office IRC channel, and emailing with the consent of Emily:

[17:14:19] <harej> Finnegan: or in emily's case, "there are not enough articles on women scientists. this is an outrage to us."

[17:15:19] <Finnegan> i am now enjoying a mental image of her delivering a podium-pounding speech to rouse the feminists

[17:15:52] <marktraceur> I want you to get up, walk to your windows, throw them open, and yell "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M GOING TO WRITE ARTICLES ABOUT WOMEN SCIENTISTS"

[17:15:54] <ragesoss> DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY

[17:16:46] <Finnegan> marktraceur: i think you honestly just summarized her operating philosophy. If only everyone could channel their anger like that..."

I thought (and apparently other people do as well!) that Emily's approach is quite motivational! (:

Pine

This is an Encyclopedia
One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve
The well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.
—Catherine Munro