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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