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.... 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.