Emily and Netha, thank you for working tirelessly to decrease the gender
gap - congrats on the great article!
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That is nice, and includes a nice plug for the IEG
grant process as well!
2014-04-01 19:28 GMT+02:00, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>om>:
Nice work Netha and Emily!
-Sarah
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Netha Hussain
<nethahussain(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Here is a blog post interviewing Emily Temple-Wood, the co-founder of
> Wikiproject:
> Women
> Scientists<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>gt;.
> Congratulations, Emily!
>
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-…
>
> - Netha
>
>
> Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily
> Temple-Wood
> Posted: 01/04/2014
> 14:28<
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> "I love to collect information, and I love that I get to share that
> information with the world," says Emily Temple-Wood, a veteran editor on
> English Wikipedia. Emily, who likes reading encyclopedias from
> cover-to-cover, finds writing on Wikipedia a transition from being a
> consumer to a creator of knowledge.
>
> Her first attempt at writing on Wikipedia was in 2005, when she was 10
> years old. She wrote a page about her little sister saying that she was
a
> "stupid butthead", which got
removed from Wikipedia instantly. As she
> grew
> older, she knew that she could do more productive things on Wikipedia.
>
> In 2007, when Emily Temple-Wood created an account on Wikipedia, she was
> just 12 years old. She started off by categorizing and cleaning up
> existing
> wikipedia articles. Eventually, she found it and useful to contribute
> knowledge to Wikipedia. Her first interest was endangered languages. She
> created several articles related to endangered languages and became
> dedicated to Wikipedia.
>
> Emily, now 19, has written over 200 articles on Wikipedia. Lately, she
> has
> been writing about rare genetic diseases, Islamic history and mythology.
> Her pet project is Wikiproject: Women
> scientists<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>gt;,
> an initiative to create and expand articles
about women scientists.
> "WikiProject Women Scientists is growing into a nice space for
> contributing
> to this less-covered area and we are gaining some active participants,
so
> that is great! I'm so glad to be a part
of something that is making a
> real
> difference on Wikipedia," she says. She is also an administrator on
> Wikipedia, a trusted editor who has been granted the technical ability
to
> perform special actions on English
Wikipedia.
>
> [image:
> 2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG]<
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_201…
>
> Emily is an undergraduate student at the Loyola University in Chicago,
> majoring in molecular biology with additional two minors : Arabic and
> Islamic world studies. She aspires to go to graduate school and get an
> MD/
> PhD in medicine to fulfil her dream of becoming research physician. She
> has
> basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean and French and wants to be a fluent
> speaker of these three languages someday. She is undergoing training as
> an
> emergency medical technician along with her undergraduate studies.
> Because
> of the many real-life commitments, Emily is not being able to spend as
> much
> time for writing articles as she wants.
>
> "First of all, I schedule time to edit, either with workshops or with
> friends. Editing with friends makes it a lot easier to make the time for
> it. I also edit as I read. Like many of us, I use Wikipedia every day to
> look up facts and whenever I see something that needs to be fixed, I do
> it.
> Treating my editing as a social endeavor has been really helpful and
> definitely motivates me to contribute more, and I think that's my
message
> to fellow women. Have fun together while
editing - enjoy food and drink
> and
> socialize! Some people take Wikipedia too seriously and make it an
> anti-social space a lot of the time, so you can counter that by enjoying
> wiki-socialization in real life and being serious online.", says Emily
> when
> asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of
> real-life and online volunteering.
>
> She is also a Individual Engagement
>
Grantee<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> of
> the Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>,
the
> not-for-profit organization that hosts
Wikipedia. In her role as a
> grantee,
> she is aiming to create a new model for bringing women into the
Wikimedia
> movement and creating more content to fill
the coverage gap with topics
> related to women, especially biographies of women. She is trying to
> change
> the gender situation on English Wikipedia where only around 10-25
percent
> of all contributors are women. She is also
looking forward to create a
> best
> practice kit for running workshops on systemic bias. Systemic bias is an
> insidious problem on Wikipedia, where women, people of color, and
> non-Western topics are severely underrepresented. She thinks that her
> biggest contribution to the Wikipedia community has been helping to
bring
> awareness about the systemic bias problem.
She has attended three
> international conferences, where she presented her learnings and
> experiences in working with Wikipedia. She finds it exciting to get to
> travel around the world and meet amazing Wikipedians from different
> language communities.
>
> Emily thinks that "women's voices are so important in this [Wikipedia]
> community and [women] need to speak up, especially because there are so
> few
> women participating in the movement". She asks women "to trust in their
> own
> competence and jump in, and don't take criticism too hard," to be a
> successful writer on Wikipedia. You can view Emily's userpage on
> Wikipedia
> here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana>.
>
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