On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 07:27, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:59 AM, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 01:55, Susan Spencer susan.spencer@gmail.com wrote:
To have a serious response to the problem, let's have a 'Women Post to Wiki' month, and have a banner about it on every Wiki page during the month. It validates that the world community accepts women as experts, and invites women to post who may have thought about it before, but didn't. I love that Google has different logos every day. Wiki can have a different logo for that month.
- Susan Spencer Conklin
Susan, I think this is a great idea. International Women's Day is on March 8. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp
Sarah
This is definitely doable and happened in a limited way in the past.
The English Wikipedia DYK will pick theme related articles related to special dates such as International Women's Day. Last year they selected new articles that were related to women for the Main Page DYK section on this day. And the majority of the articles that I created last March for US Womens Histiory Month appeared as DYK on the Main Page.
Sydney Poore (FloNight)
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Is there time to organize a Wikipedia Women's Week centred around March 8, with the explicit aim of attracting more women editors?
The WP logo could be changed a little to include the Venus symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_symbol
We could organize women editors to act as a welcoming party, or mentors, to adopt new woman users during that week.
Should we separate off this thread so we have a header directly addressing it?
Sarah