Solution. Get some women to put on bodysuits and bathing caps and photograph them holding up a large WP logo. Fix the details in Photoshop as required. Put the image on Commons, ask WP women to put it on their User page, share it with friends on social media, etc. Ensure this photo is more widely available than that of the actual statue.
Kerry
From: gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:gendergap-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Stierch
Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2014 5:00 AM
To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participationof women within Wikimedia projects.
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Update: Re: Polish Wikipedia Monument shows only men
According to Polish women participants on the WikiWomen's Collaborative Facebook, this has been a source of frustration and has been discussed by the Polish community. Originally, there were going to be to female and two male figures, but, that was..scrapped for whatever reason.
We've had a lot of lively discussion on it via Facebook!
-Sarah
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:
I thought it was going up a year from now, but it's this October, so a bit late. But hopefully they have or ''will have'' a plaque mentioning women editors. Actually, it's probably best that Polish Wikipedia women editors approach whom so ever.
But for the heck of it, I found the Polish article on the statue and asked the question on the talk page, using my best Google Translate polish. :-)
[https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyskusja:Pomnik_Wikipedii
I see there is a Polish Gender gap project but don't have energy right now to see what their input was,
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:Gender_Studies
Better late than never noticed a Polish Gender studies group so left message there too.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyskusja_wikiprojektu:Gender_Studies#Pomnik_Wikipedii.3F
CM
On 10/10/2014 2:04 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/10/09/polish-town-to-have-monument-honoring-wikipedia/?intcmp=obmod_ffo&intcmp=obnetwork "Polish town to have monument honoring Wikipedia"
The lack of anatomical precision did confuse me a bit as to whether male or female. Others pointed out narrow hips and broad shoulders indicated male. But this is Catholic Poland. Not Dutch Amsterdam or Venice Italy. So of course they aren't going to show the explicit sexual details.
Perhaps the Wikipedia Powers that Be could write a nice letter explaining how they should have at least one woman in there? That would be really great!
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