On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, phoebe ayers <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:phoebe.wiki@gmail.com">phoebe.wiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div id=":pn">As part of their celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Spanish<br>
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Argentina has organized a contest to write<br>
biographies of notable Argentine women:<br>
<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Concurso_Wikipedia_10_-_Wikimedia_Argentina" target="_blank">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Concurso_Wikipedia_10_-_Wikimedia_Argentina</a><br>


They have a list of ideas of missing biographies:<br>
<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/edici%C3%B3n_21/Lista_de_mujeres" target="_blank">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/edici%C3%B3n_21/Lista_de_mujeres</a><br>
<br>
What a lovely idea for combating systemic bias. (This will be the 21st<br>
(!) article writing contest on es:wp:<br>
<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso" target="_blank">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso</a>). The contest<br>
starts May 22. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Wikipedia!<br>
<br>
-- phoebe</div></blockquote></div><br>This is really cool. Do I smell a good candidate for a Wikimedia blog post? Perhaps a bilingual one by Wikimedia Argentina?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Steven Walling<div>Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation</div>

<div><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org" target="_blank">wikimediafoundation.org</a></div><br>