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@gmail.com>:

> Nice work Netha and Emily!
>
> -Sarah
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Netha Hussain
> <nethahussain@gmail.com>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>.

>> Congratulations, Emily!
>>
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?just_reloaded=1
>>
>> - Netha
>>
>>
>> Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily
>> Temple-Wood
>> Posted: 01/04/2014

>> 14:28<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?view=print&comm_ref=false>
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>> , Interview <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/interview/>, Systemic
>> Bias <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/systemic-bias/>,
>> Woman<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/woman/>
>> , UK Tech News <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech>
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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>,

>> 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_2013__User_Keilana.JPG>

>>
>> 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>.
>>
>> *Copyright notes: Image by Fuzheado (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0
>> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
>> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)>], via Wikimedia Commons*
>>
>>
>> *Follow Netha Hussain on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nethahussain
>> <http://www.twitter.com/nethahussain>*

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