I think a North of England effort that focused on events and activities to
expand underrepresented content on Wikipedia would be worthwhile.
Although it is not your main goal, it might be strategically wise to launch
such a thing in time for the international Art+Feminism campaign in March
2016, and then build off of that momentum to take on other underrepresented
topic areas.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Marie Earley <eiryel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
There's a comedian / political activist in the UK,
Rob Newman,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Newman_%28comedian%29 who talked
about his political activism and how he would talk to other activists,
saying, we should do this and that, they would answer, "That's a great
idea, why don't you do that?" It's a fair point.
The thing is I'm based in the North of England and the last local meet-up
had six people sign up to it and three of them added "hopefully I'll be
able to make it". I'm not quite sure what sort of attendance a feminism+
[whatever] would have up here.*
The women in leadership stuff sounds interesting though.
Marie
* Please no-one suggest a London edit-a-thon,
London-centrism is a pet
hate of mine.
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:25:48 -0500
From: risker.wp(a)gmail.com
To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Is that you I see volunteering to organize one, Marie? :-)
I suspect that is the reason, to be honest - nobody specifically taking
the bull by the horns. It requires interest in the subject, and a
willingness and ability to organize the events. Economics is not a
particularly popular subject (comparatively speaking) in the Wikipedia
world - the entire topic area could use a lot of work, not just the aspects
relating to women or feminism - and like anything else, the smaller the
number of people participating in a topic area, the less likely there will
be individuals who take on the challenge of organizing collaborative
events.
As to Women in Politics, I think this is probably (at least for women in
Western countries) one of the better covered areas, simply because most of
our major language Wikipedias treat all politicians at what they consider
to be notable levels of government in pretty much the same way, using
essentially standardized formats.
Risker/Anne
On 6 November 2015 at 06:16, Marie Earley <eiryel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
As much as I like to see an event like this happening, and the Women in
Science event, I'm left wondering why there are no similar events for Women
in Politics or Economics + Feminism.
Marie
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:47:08 -0500
From: info(a)art.plusfeminism.org
To: gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia
Edit-a-thon
Dear Gender gap mailing list members,
We are in the process of organizing the third annual international
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The New York event will be held at the
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA on
Saturday, March 5, 2016. We are looking for support in the form of
participants and suggestions.
Last year, over 1500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and more than 75 node events around the world participated in
Art+Feminism’s second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, resulting in the
creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500
articles on Wikipedia. *Together, we can double those numbers in 2016! *
If you’re interested in hosting an edit-a-thon in your city over the
weekend of March 4-6, 2016, please be in touch. There are funds available
to help node events pay for childcare and refreshments. You can reach us
at: info(a)art.plusfeminism.org.
If you want to help out in other ways, we are also gathering research
materials for the March event:
- Suggested Topics
- Articles needing creation
- Articles needing expansion and/or cleanup
- Suggestions for online research materials on women and the arts
- Any existing documentation you might be willing to share on
Wikipedia editing or conflict resolution online
- You can find more information about the project and upcoming events
on our meet-up page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
- Or on our website:
http://art.plusfeminism.org
I encourage you to forward this message on at your discretion.
Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!
All best,
Siân Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + Michael Mandiberg
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