P.S. As someone who used to be part of a "*Chix" organization and got tired of explaining why we called ourselves "chicks", I'm all in favor of naming things "*Women" instead. :)

It was a great pleasure to meet so many of the women whose names I recognized from this mailing list at the WikiWomen Luncheon. There were about 120 of us in the room, and probably another 20-30 other women who were busy elsewhere at the same time: probably the largest gathering of WikiWomen ever to this point. I don't think there was a single session I attended all conference where I was the only woman, which really did mean a lot. What is interesting is that, despite this wonderful concentration of women Wikimedians at this conference, we still only made up about 10-12% of the total attendance. But the strength, experience, and knowledge that we had in the banquet room was amazing and incredibly positive. To get to know each other a bit, we all took turns introducing ourselves and explaining our link to the Wikimedia projects, and then each of us added three words that we felt were significant to us. It was really fascinating to see the diversity in that! Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

Thanks Carol and Risker - I'm a bit burnt out so I'm on day two of "no Wiki anything" :) but...reports will follow soon! I'm pretty amazed at how many women were there, it was a very inspiring experience!! My only issue with this years Wikimania is that I was unable to spend much solid time with anyone due to how busy I was :( -Sarah On 7/17/12 9:06 AM, Carol Moore DC wrote: -- Sarah Stierch Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap