Hi all,
March is an amazing month for raising awareness, excitement, and initiative
around broadening the presence women in our community and our content.
In that spirit, West Virginia University is hosting a stellar panel through
its Talking Publicly symposium series at WVU Libraries and the Reed College
of Media.
*Where Are All the Women? Wikipedia’s Gender Gap*
*March 4th 7:30pm EST *
Watch it Live:
http://tlcommons.wvu.edu/Webcasts/
#WikiGenderGap
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The panel includes:
*Adeline Koh -- Co-founder of The Rewriting Wikipedia Project which
supports and advocates for efforts to add entries and posts to Wikipedia
that focus on postcolonial studies as well as ethnic/minority and
marginalized peoples. Koh is currently an associate professor of literature
and the director of the Stockton College Center for the Digital Humanities.
She also is a core contributor to the Profhacker Column at the Chronicle of
Higher Education. Koh uses Wikipedia research writing assignments in her
classes and teaches others how to start activist instructional initiatives
of their own.
*Jami Mathewson -- Educational Partnerships Manager at the Wiki Education
Foundation where she develops partnerships with educational institutions
and academic associations to systematically bring more student editors and
high quality content to Wikipedia. Over the last three years, Mathewson has
focused her volunteer editing on improving content about women’s issues.
Mathewson identifies ways to support partners who are looking to promote
the use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool on a large scale.
*Sydney Poore -- Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration an
international not-for-profit research organization that provides
accessible, credible information to support informed decision-making health
care. Poore is a member of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Fund
Dissemination Committee and was a member of the Wikipedia English
Arbitration Committee and the WMF Ombudsmen Commission.
*Frank Schulenburg -- Executive Director of the Wiki Education Foundation
and former member of the executive management team of the Wikimedia
Foundation. His work primarily has focused on broadening participation and
developing the public understanding of Wikipedia, especially among subject
matter experts. Schulenburg has been involved with Wikipedia since 2005,
both as an author and as a photographer.
The following day WVU will host a 3-hour workshop to address strategies on
campuses underway for correcting the gender gap and introduce the protocols
of writing for Wikipedia at WVU with ideas for proven course assignments
and strategies for adoption in their courses.
This is only the kick-off in a year-long focus at WVU on Women and
Wikipedia. WVU Dean of Libraries Jon Cawthorne was touched and inspired
after he heard the story of Adrianne Wadewitz and is dedicating this year
of discussion, experimentation, and action to her.
For full information about both events:
http://reedcollegeofmedia.wvu.edu/about/featured-events/wiki-panel
*Again, March 4th at 7:30pm EST*
*Watch it Live:
http://tlcommons.wvu.edu/Webcasts/
<http://tlcommons.wvu.edu/Webcasts/>*
Cheers,
- Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)