Hi Caroline!
On 1/31/12 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote:
Hi,
This is a great idea :) We can try to have a female-related article in
the first page of wikipedias. (I've just asked for fr-wikipedia).
Glad you're excited - do you think Wikimedia France will sponsor the
event perhaps? (Giveaways, funding) You know what would be cool - if we
could also try to coordinate some translations of articles into other
languages after or during the event. I've participated in events where
the event was in Mexico, and we collaborated on Etherpad to write
articles and translate them. It was really cool and a lot of good
content came from it! But that's just an idea, for use now or to table
for later!
You're lucky to have Women's History Month, in
France we have "Women's
Rights Day"', often translated in mass medias to "Woman's
Day'" and,
as women, we are always told the oh so funny joke "don't do the
laundry today.... Leave it for tommorow". -_-"
Ugh, yes, I've heard jokes like that before regarding doing laundry. So
let's turn that into "Do my laundry for me, we're editing Wikipedia!" :)
I do know that Women's History Day is March 8, but the US and the UK
decided to make it month long. It is called "International Women's
Month," so I decided to say let's own it no matter where we are!
I'll try to involve feminist organizations in the
Wikipedia edition,
how writting women's history is a feminist act, etc. Anyone has the
experience of dealing with teaching NPOV to polical organizations and
if it ends well ?
That sounds wonderful. I do know a few people who have worked with NPOV
and political groups. [[User:Carolmooredc]] has recently put on an event
that worked with advocacy groups and taught them how to edit neutrally.
http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/One_day_training The talk page also has her
input from the recent event. I have no clue if this would be helpful,
but it's a PowerPoint I presented to the Smithsonian Institution staff
about NPOV and COI editing:
http://www.slideshare.net/SarahStierch/sourcing-original-research-notabilit…
I'm pretty sure that [[ User:Trizek]], [[User:Jean-Frédéric]],
[[User:Remi_Mathis]] and [[ User:Serein]] have some experience as well.
They're pretty active in GLAM and perhaps they have some French resources.
Even if we take this off list or develop something on Wiki, let me know
how I can help! Thanks Caroline for carrying the French torch!
Sarah
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