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Man our talk page has been blowing up lately....
The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations
So glad we have a photo of a guy doing "research" to illustrate this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research
Enjoy!
The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations
So glad we have a photo of a guy doing "research" to illustrate this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research
The same user, Tesseract2, added both photos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Childfree&diff=409889868&o...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Childfree&diff=405980864&o...
Daniel Case
All,
I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist:
"But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.], "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 1).
Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers around memory, trauma, survival and recovery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker
I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list, please share your links too!
-Pete
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list, please share your links too! -Pete
I'm proud of the work I've done on WisCon, the Tiptree Awards, Broad Universe, the Carl Brandon Society, and related topics.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
All, I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist:
"But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.], "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 1).
Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers around memory, trauma, survival and recovery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list, please share your links too! -Pete
My all-time favorite article I've ever worked on is a biography of Elsie MacGill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill
who I knew nothing about, but stumbled across and she was so cool that I had to do some serious research. She was a Canadian who was the world's first female aircraft designer, during WWII, and was a major part of Canada's aircraft industry during the war; she had a comic published about her called "Queen of the Hurricanes"! She later went on to a career advocating for women's rights. She did all this despite being disabled by polio and never learning to fly herself.
Also: if anyone is looking for an article subject, I just stumbled on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg_Institute_Women_of_Vision_Awards Lots of redlinks and promising article subjects in there!
-- phoebe
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
All,
I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist:
"But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.], "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 1http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3687/is_199701/ai_n8747112/pg_14/ ).
Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers around memory, trauma, survival and recovery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker
I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list, please share your links too!
-Pete
Pete, this is a great idea! I've enjoyed reading the articles that people have shared.
I have a few favorites but one that stands out is a biography of a living person that I wrote. I rarely create BLPs because of the concerns that I have with them being filled with unsourced negative content.
But JoAnn H. Morgan stood out as a glaring omission that I couldn't pass on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_H._Morgan
Morgan was the first female engineer at Kennedy Space Center when she went to work there in 1963, and she remained the only one for a long time. Back in the 60's she helped design the rocket launch computer systems for the initial NASA flight programs. For advancement she decided to go into management instead of flight, and later she was the first woman to serve as a senior executive at Kennedy Space Center.
There is loads more information about her in books, and more good images since she worked for the US government, so her article could be expanded more. Katherine Bement Davis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Bement_Davisor Ellen_Hardin_Walworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hardin_Walworthare more typical of the people who I write about. I enjoy writing about women who were trailblazers during the late 19th or early 20th century. Many of them were well known during their time but fell out of common knowledge because they did have positions in society that were recorded in textbooks. Sydney Poore User:FloNight
Yeah...awesome thread.
Working on articles by friends and colleagues of mine is one of my favorite activities when it comes to Wikipedia, so it's nice to be able to contribute to improve one another's articles.
I recently nominated my beloved Louise Nevelson for good article. She's one of the most important figures in American art history, and is considered a forerunner of the feminist art movement. She identified as an artist, not a female artist. She was also sexually very free spirited, a fashion icon, and quite the character....and of course one hell of an artist. One of my favorite parts of the article is that when Alice Neel asked Nevelson why she dressed so amazingly, Nevelson replied "fucking dear..fucking." <3 sexually empowered people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevelson
Any, yeah, she's GA, so if you feel like keeping an eye on her with me when the review starts, I'd appreciate it.
I also recently expanded a random roller derby article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Roller_Warriors
I noticed I have actually rewritten all of these articles, not actually written them (I've written plenty, whatever!)... I rewrote the Woman's Building article, which was originally started by a woman who participated in it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Building (it needed work).
woo!
Sarah