I might be a little punch-drunk from all the gender drama lately, but..."meet some of the women who edit Wikipedia!" sounds more like an introduction to a speed-dating event to me than what is presumably intended to be a demystification/de-othering blog post. "Come meet some women" isn't exactly a phrase that comes without baggage, culturally speaking, and it makes me wince to see female editors being announced in a tone that makes them sound like exotic zoo animals.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Forwarding to the Gendergap list in case others are interested, and forwarding to Jason and Peaceray in case they want to share this blog post at the Art and Feminism event in Portland, Oregon (Cascadia territory!) this weekend.

Cheers,

Pine

On Mar 6, 2015 4:24 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Looks like the link below still had the inspire story URL in the HTML.

Here is the correct link in plain text:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/06/meet-some-women-who-contribute-to-wikipedia/

Enjoy … and have a wonderful weekend!

-f

On Mar 6, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello social media team,

We just published a roundup of some of the women who contribute to Wikipedia on the blog:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/06/meet-some-women-who-contribute-to-wikipedia/

Many thanks to Andrew, Victor, Heather, and everyone who helped write and edit this post — as well as the many profiles and videos featured in it! :)

Here are proposed social media messages for this story:


Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

Meet some of the women who contribute to Wikipedia -- and find out why they do it. (link) #genderdiversity

Facebook/Google+

Meet some of the women who contribute to Wikipedia: To celebrate International Women’s Day, we've featured 11 different profiles and videos of frequent editors and community leaders. Hear their inspiring stories and find out why they keep editing. (link)

Feel free to tweak as needed.

Thanks for helping share this story with our community!


Fabrice


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