Well done Daniel - great article!
Inspired by your efforts and Sarah's session, I have beefed up another of
the proposed articles. Although I have not done enough to make a DYK, it's
better than it was.
Here she is - Alice
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whose commitment to peace and anti-war activism cost her a lot.
Cheers,
Whiteghost.ink
On 24 July 2012 14:12, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <dancase(a)frontiernet.net>wrote;wrote:
A little over a week after Wikimania, where I
participated in the “10
women in 10 minutes” session Sarah led, I have gotten the article my group
worked on, [[Adrienne Bolland]], through DYK to the Main Page queue, with
two other editors who worked on it sharing in the credit. It is currently
scheduled to run on July 25, in the evening rotation in Europe, afternoon
here in North American Eastern time where I live and morning on the West
Coast, and early morning July 26 in Oceania/Asia.
I have two takeaways from the experience to offer anyone else
participating in, or running, one of these events.
1. *Cast a wide net for sources* when looking to expand a stubby
article. I was attracted to this one because the Francophone Wikipedia has
a longer article on her; unfortunately it’s tagged as lacking sources. But
at least I can read French well enough to figure out what should have been
included in the English article, and that helped to guide us. Reflecting
the multilingual group we were, the final article has sources from not only
French and English (Monash University in Australia has a nice set of pages
on aviation pioneers) but German and Spanish as well (The German book we
cited actually seems like a good source; it seems to be meant for younger
readers and thus was at about the right level for me to read—somehow, when
I looked at it, German (which I’ve never formally studied) came through
clearer than it ever has. Unfortunately the Google preview ends right when
the story starts getting good. Perhaps some German reader can find the
hardcover book and see if there’s anything else worth adding). Other
sources tapped include the Air France inflight magazine, a school website
in France and the World Postal Union website (which would seem to be a
good, reliable, authoritative source for stamp information).
2. *Not all the work done by editors physically collaborating shows up
in the history*. Sitting there putting our heads together, we were
able to come to a consensus on whether a particular source was reliable
and, when two of our sources conflicted as to a particular fact, which to
include.
I hope you like the final result as much as I liked writing it (Mme.
Bolland makes a nice feminist role model—after her aviation career, she was
in the French women’s-suffrage movement, then supported the Republicans
during the Spanish Civil War and was active in the resistance during the
war. The more I researched, the more I liked her and felt honored to be
improving her Wikipedia article.
Now, I hope, the French article can be properly referenced and the other
articles expanded. User:Maire, who was in our group, promised she would get
around to doing a Polish translation, which left me with Russian among the
languages I’d feel comfortable editing in that aren’t represented yet among
the interwiki links. Which I’ll do when I can figure out how to properly
transliterate her first name and which of four possible pronunciations I
can think of for her last name is the right one.
Or someone else here can take up the challenge. It’s worth it.
Daniel Case
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