On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to Wikipedia.
FloNight is active whenever she can find time. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)
I love Wikisource. It might be my favorite wikiproject. I met John there way back in 2007 when I was adding poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and adding children stories. :-)
I need to see what I can related to my most recent women's articles on WP.
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very active in moderating the tone of the community. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
BirgitteSB, is a great resource. She is knowledgeable about Wikisource and WMF policy in general.
Sydney