Hi everyone,
A few months ago Laura Hale founded WP:Women's sport on English
Wikipedia.[1] While it's not an area I tend to work in, I've noticed it
popping up on my radar with a French-English-Hebrew speaking editor
named Genevieve2 who has been posting about it on WP:Feminism and
WP:Women's History talk pages.
Some of you might have interest in the project, right now Genevieve is
trying to inspire folks to participate in writing an article and major
women's sports in North America.[2] It might interest some of you, or
perhaps inspire some of you to translate or write related articles in
whatever language of your choice!
And if you're in the mood to get a bit fiery or involved in
conversation, a discussion about gender in articles (i.e. "This is a
men's football tournament," for the SuperBowl, for example) has been
brought up on the talk page.[3] (It also appears to me that the people
involved in the conversation are male, correct me if I'm wrong, of course!)
Great work Laura at starting the project and Genevieve (who I don't
believe is on this list, yet) for promoting collaboration amongst
Wikipedians. It's been nice to see my cohorts from WP:Feminism jumping
into handle some tough tasks of copy editing issues on some articles.
-Sarah
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_sport
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Genevieve2/sandbox0001A
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women%27s_sport#Sta…
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