Dear GenderGappers!
I hope that you are all fine.
It was great to see some of you at Wikimania, the women luncheon was a very happy
experience!
Let me also make you notice that some of us are involved in the organization of a track on
gender and diversity in openness at the Open Knowledge Festival (Helsinki 17-22 September
2012). It will be a great opportunity to keep the conversation and move forward the gender
conscientiousness in technological and open circles. The Festival is absolutely fantastic,
plus, see that there is a possibility to apply for Travel Bursaries
http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/ (deadline today 1st August!!! unless you are from
a developing country in which case it is August 8th). It would be great that many women
attend the Festival (
okfestival.org), join the gender and diversity track
(
http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/) and could take advantage of this Bursaries
opportunity (
http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/).
Kisses! Mayo
«·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·»
«·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·»
«·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·»
Research Digital Commons Governance:
http://www.onlinecreation.info
Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University.
Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Ph.D European University Institute
E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
Twitter/Identica: Lilaroja
Skype: mayoneti
Phone United States: 001 - 8576548231
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
Berkman Center
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Cambridge, MA 02138
+1 (617) 495-7547 (Phone)
+1 (617) 495-7641 (Fax)
Personal Postal Address USA:
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http://www.acetarium.com/
265 Elm Street - 4
Somerville, MA, USA
02144
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On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
<cindamuse@gmail.com<mailto:cindamuse@gmail.com>> wrote:
My own thoughts echo those expressed by others. Great job, Christine! No surprise though,
I think your work is outstanding!
Cindy
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sydney Poore
<sydney.poore@gmail.com<mailto:sydney.poore@gmail.com>> wrote:
Christine, that's truly awesome. :-)
I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now, and thrilled to see
that you've got her biography to FA. It will be fantastic for her article to be on the
main page on her birthday as a feature article!
Sydney
User:FloNight
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Christine Meyer
<christinewmeyer@gmail.com<mailto:christinewmeyer@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in en.Wikipedia, and this week
marks a major accomplishment for me in this area and for me as an editor. [[Maya
Angelou]] is now a featured article.
I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my very first edit of
it was early in my WP-editing career, in September 2007: [diff
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&ol…]8867180].
It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of the time. When I came across
it, I realized that Angelou's work and life was sorely underrepresented and not at all
comprehensive, way before I came to understand the gender gap in this project. I also
realized that in order to do the subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert,
something I definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very least, I needed
to read her six autobiographies, and while I was at it, write articles about them. Only
one article existed at the time: her first autobiography [[I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings]], which was in a pitiable state. A year's worth of research, a lot of
assistance from some of the most premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it
became an FA.
In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about Angelou's five remaining
autobiographies (one is a FA, the others are GAs), some ancillary articles about her other
works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya Angelou]] is currently up for FLC.) After
I completed the article about Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio
up to snuff, and it had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass in its first candidacy.
I think that was due to the fact that the article was truly prepared before it was
submitted. For anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC process, that's
my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do not use FAC (or GAC, even) to
review it. There are other places for that, so use them before bringing it to FAC.
My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic. There are some things that need
to be accomplished before that; my goal is to get there before Dr. Angelou's 85th
birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very least, that her bio will on the front
page. Ironically, this is the week I started researching the article about another
elderly and important woman: [[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame Street.
Christine
Username: Figureskatingfan
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Best regards,
Cindy Ashley-Nelson
"Yes. Her again."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse
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