On 9/15/11 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sarah Stierch<
sarah.stierch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have
>> contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman who
>> ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is much
>> of anything related to women's history on Wikisource...
> Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our
> community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest
> chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia
> are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can
> be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment,
> the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground
> for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information
> gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights
> into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to
> Wikipedia.
>
> FloNight is active whenever she can find time.
>
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight
> (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)
>
> One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very
> active in moderating the tone of the community.
>
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
>
> There are many more ladies who have been very involved over the years,
> and they usually arnt far away.
> (people dont rage-quit Wikisource. Wikisource looses contributors
> because they rage-quit English Wikipedia, and they stop editing
> Wikisource at the same time.)
>
> If you're looking for a topical place to start, we have portals such as
>
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women
>
> When preparing for a training sessions for Australian
> librarians(mostly women) in Miles, Queensland, I extracted a list of
> women from a book of notable Australians
>
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908.djvu
> Sadly the Wikipedia training session went over the allocated time and
> we didnt look at this. We have another training session for
> Queensland librarians coming up soon.
>