On 5/18/2013 12:35 PM, Jane Darnell wrote: *Wow, I didn't even know it existed. So there actually are people who will create an article (of interest to them) if you put up some refs, maybe an outline. I have a bunch of folders with that sort of thing just keeping adding refs to but never get around to... Definitely something to help increase number of women-related articles (though not too many of mine are). Or increase our ability to generate them, especially those who may be have more enthusiasm for the referencing stage than the writing and defending edits stages...

This is the kind of thread I like... ;) I've put myself in the Wikicup, so many of my edits are with the competition in mind. I have a FA ([[Heart of a Woman]], Maya Angelou's fourth autobiography) that just passed, and I have four others languishing at GAC. I also have an Angelou featured topic that's getting close to passing. I've been reviewing a lot of GAs these days; for some reason, a lot of basketball articles, a subject I know very little about. (That's the fun of reviewing articles--you get exposed to all kinds of new and different topics.) Fortunately, the article I'm currently reviewing for GAC has gender-gap connections, [[Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics]]. I recently reviewed [[Cobi Crispin]], one of the major players for the Aussie team. These girls are very impressive. The Wikicup has really tapped into my competitive streak. We're currently two weeks into the third round. I easily passed the first, and stayed at about hafl-way through the pack during the second, although I was second in my pool, behind an editor who came in third last year. Right now, my scores are low, but once my FA goes through, I'll be in contention. Very fun! Christine User: Figureskatingfan On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Emily Monroe <emilymonroe03(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

Ryan, I feel the same way, and I keep wondering what I can do to help populate Wikimedia Commons categories of artists. I feel quite proud of the list I produced, and I uploaded a bunch of images to get it this long. I have been fascinated by the stories of the women on the list and made two entries for them: [[Dorothea Berck]] and her daughter [[Isabela Coymans]]. Work on the first one led me to add a picture to the [[Mary Frick Jacobs]] page. Ideally, we could build some easy upload link on commons to populate such lists. Many art lovers have the ability to work on the lists, but are complete newbies on Commons. We have seen this with the Wiki Loves Monuments project. I just updated the Wikipedia page on that to help explain how the lists work, as a way of helping newcomers to `WLM, but also as a prompt to do the same thing for " Lists of artworks". My list of Frans Hals paintings is much longer, and only the ones with pictures on Commons are in there right now. I think it would be useful to put the lost & stolen ones on the list with an " easy upload link" so people can contribute black&white scans from old art books. Jane On May 20, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:

Phoebe, that's so cool! It's always nice to see other people working on women scientists. :) Myself, I've been taking a break from the scientific biography and working on [[Blue Qur'an]] - it's such a beautiful manuscript and so unique! kei On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:53 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: