Hi,
WikiWomenCamp got underway today in Buenos Aires. :D We took a lot of
pictures and videos; when we get home, many of them will be shared on
Commons. We started around 10am with an opening circle led by our lovely
and wonderful facilitator Anne Goldenberg from Montreal. The conference
was facilitated using open space, so we started out with introductions and
why we were here. After the hour long happy introduction fest, we broke
into two groups. The first group discussed statistics for Wikipedia and how
to measure success. The other group involved a discussion about our
personal experiences editing Wikipedia as women and transgendered people.
In both session, an obvious theme emerged that there are many regional and
cultural issues that make doing global projects difficult because these
conditions have to be taken into consideration when doing a project. The
second time period became a single group that went into three session
periods. We discussed why women did not edit Wikipedia on a personal,
regional and global level. At the end of the day, we had a closing session
and one of the major themes of this was how motivated and encouraged we
felt about the situation going forward, that we could go back to our local
communities with a real concept of what the gender gap means both locally
and globally, and have the contacts to enact change. The Argentine
catering was also fantastic (yummy!) and it enabled us to continue our
seriously awesome conversations and all important networking. Tomorrow and
Friday, we're hoping to progress from a problem identification to a more
solution oriented form of thinking.
Session notes can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp .
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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