I'd collected my favorite Barnstars and was trying to motivate myself to give out to a bunch of editors have associated with over time. Then Ryan made it so EASY and I went on a spree tonight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_awards has a WikiProject Gender Studies Award "For editors who make significant contributions to gender studies articles that expand Wikipedia’s knowledge about gender, gender theory, feminisms, masculinities and/or sexuality studies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars could probably use a topical barnstar on "issues of interest to women" or something.

On 3/7/2011 9:28 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:

Hey folks,

Did Ryan Kaldari post this to this group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari/wikilove ? Forgive me if he or someone else already has.

Ryan's just created a new widget that makes it much easier to award barnstars (and kittens!). I think this is FABULOUS: making it easier to be kind and friendly can't be wrong :-)

Instructions for how to download and use the widget are on Ryan's userpage, at the link. I encourage everyone here to experiment with offering each other love& praise :-)

Thanks, Sue

(And if the barnstar concept is new to you, you can read about its use on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars.)

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