From: Christine Meyer <christinewmeyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Ratio in Wikipedia
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, 5 October, 2011, 15:28

This is a great idea, and I've accepted the invitation to join this on Facebook.  Although I'm going to be rebellious and instead of working on the article about a woman in STEM, I'm going to continue to work on [[Maya Angelou]]. 

I've been working on several of Dr. Angelou's articles for the past few years; most of them are either GAs or FAs, including her most important autobiography, [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]].  Her main bio page needs lots of work, so these days I've been doing some more research.  Five out of six of her autobiographies have been expanded, and they're at least GAs.  I've been pretty much alone in this endeavor, but it's been enjoyable and I've learned lots from, to borrow from one of Angelou's poems, "a phenomenal woman".

Articles about autobiographies and their writers aren't well represented on WP, and I believe that she's the only African African author that has a FA.  Black writers, both male and female, of any genre, aren't well represented, either.  So forgive me if my efforts don't technically fit the perimeters of the event.  Or not--either way, I don't care, and as my mother would say, I'm gonna do what I want anyway. ;)

Christine
User: Figureskatingfan

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Amy Senger <amy@1x57.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone - 

TechCocktail just ran a post about "Changing the Ratio" of female editors in Wikipedia: http://techcocktail.com/changing-the-ratio-wikipedia-2011-10

And it mentions the Facebook campaign I've started to change your profile pic on Ada Lovelace Day (this Friday, Oct 7) and to edit or contribute to the Wikpedia page of a woman in STEM. I hope you'll join me: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154261054664442

Best,

Amy

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