Thanks for pointing this out, Mayo :)
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> wrote:
Dear GenderGappers!
I hope that you are all fine.
It was great to see some of you at Wikimania, the women luncheon was a
very happy experience!
Let me also make you notice that some of us are involved in the
organization of a track on gender and diversity in openness at the Open
Knowledge Festival (Helsinki 17-22 September 2012). It will be a great
opportunity to keep the conversation and move forward the gender
conscientiousness in technological and open circles. The Festival is
absolutely fantastic, plus, see that there is a possibility to apply for
Travel Bursaries
http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/ (deadline today
1st August!!! unless you are from a developing country in which case it is
August 8th). It would be great that many women attend the Festival (
okfestival.org), join the gender and diversity track (
http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/) and could take advantage of
this Bursaries opportunity (
http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/).
Kisses! Mayo
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On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson <cindamuse(a)gmail.com
<mailto:cindamuse@gmail.com>> wrote:
My own thoughts echo those expressed by others. Great job, Christine! No
surprise though, I think your work is outstanding!
Cindy
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com
<mailto:sydney.poore@gmail.com>> wrote:
Christine, that's truly awesome. :-)
I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now, and
thrilled to see that you've got her biography to FA. It will be fantastic
for her article to be on the main page on her birthday as a feature article!
Sydney
User:FloNight
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Christine Meyer <
christinewmeyer@gmail.com<mailto:christinewmeyer@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in en.Wikipedia, and
this week marks a major accomplishment for me in this area and for me as an
editor. [[Maya Angelou]] is now a featured article.
I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my very first
edit of it was early in my WP-editing career, in September 2007: [diff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&ol…]8867180].
It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of the time. When
I came across it, I realized that Angelou's work and life was sorely
underrepresented and not at all comprehensive, way before I came to
understand the gender gap in this project. I also realized that in order
to do the subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert, something I
definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very least, I
needed to read her six autobiographies, and while I was at it, write
articles about them. Only one article existed at the time: her first
autobiography [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], which was in a pitiable
state. A year's worth of research, a lot of assistance from some of the
most premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it became an FA.
In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about Angelou's five
remaining autobiographies (one is a FA, the others are GAs), some ancillary
articles about her other works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya
Angelou]] is currently up for FLC.) After I completed the article about
Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio up to snuff, and it
had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass in its first candidacy. I
think that was due to the fact that the article was truly prepared before
it was submitted. For anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC
process, that's my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do not
use FAC (or GAC, even) to review it. There are other places for that, so
use them before bringing it to FAC.
My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic. There are some
things that need to be accomplished before that; my goal is to get there
before Dr. Angelou's 85th birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very
least, that her bio will on the front page. Ironically, this is the week I
started researching the article about another elderly and important woman:
[[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame Street.
Christine
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Cindy Ashley-Nelson
"Yes. Her again."
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