Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
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Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
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Thank you Christine for your tireless effort and work.
Sarah On Jun 8, 2014 10:16 PM, "Christine Meyer" christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
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Thank you Christine - very inspiring!
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Christine for your tireless effort and work.
Sarah On Jun 8, 2014 10:16 PM, "Christine Meyer" christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
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I truly appreciate your work on this and related articles. They stand out as an example of the high quality of work that Wikipedians can produce.
Warm regards, Sydney On Jun 9, 2014 1:16 AM, "Christine Meyer" christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
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I want to add my kudos! Your work on Maya Angelou articles is nothing short of inspiring. Thank you!
-Emily
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
I truly appreciate your work on this and related articles. They stand out as an example of the high quality of work that Wikipedians can produce.
Warm regards, Sydney On Jun 9, 2014 1:16 AM, "Christine Meyer" christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
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Thank you all! I appreciate the kind words. On Jun 10, 2014 3:14 PM, "Keilana" keilanawiki@gmail.com wrote:
I want to add my kudos! Your work on Maya Angelou articles is nothing short of inspiring. Thank you!
-Emily
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
I truly appreciate your work on this and related articles. They stand out as an example of the high quality of work that Wikipedians can produce.
Warm regards, Sydney On Jun 9, 2014 1:16 AM, "Christine Meyer" christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She was very calm with me and told me, "Well, you took this on and now you need to finish it." Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou, something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me. It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness: https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an email.
Best, Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
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Hi Christine,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:16:17 -0700 Christine Meyer christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Many thanks for your work on it. Here's a photo of a kitten whom I found very cute as a token of my appreciation:
Love you (♥)!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Just a correction:
Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing as a young toddler/older infant (a year and a half, I think) due to illness; she wasn't born deaf-blind.
From, Emily
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
Hi Christine,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:16:17 -0700 Christine Meyer christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my
part
in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Many thanks for your work on it. Here's a photo of a kitten whom I found very cute as a token of my appreciation:
Love you (♥)!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish--
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I find this email, like many others of Shlomi's, to be creepy and inappropriate.
-VAL
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
Hi Christine,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:16:17 -0700 Christine Meyer christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Many thanks for your work on it. Here's a photo of a kitten whom I found very cute as a token of my appreciation:
Love you (♥)!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish--
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Valerie Aurora valerie@adainitiative.org wrote:
I find this email, like many others of Shlomi's, to be creepy and inappropriate.
-VAL
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
Hi Christine,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:16:17 -0700 Christine Meyer christinewmeyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw
the
view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my
part
in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry
and
themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when the world most needed them.
Many thanks for your work on it. Here's a photo of a kitten whom I found
very
cute as a token of my appreciation:
Love you (♥)!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Hi Valerie - can you elaborate a little? I've cc'd Kevin and gendergap-owners so the list moderators can be made aware of your comments.
Thanks.
Hi Risker/Anne and all,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:34:51 -0400 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffi...
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
I admit I wasn't familiar with Maya Angelou before I learned of her death, but having read about her, I realised she was a truly heroic woman who suffered through a lot and still maintained a good spirit, and with some ingenuity, resourcefulness, persistence, and courage, became a superheroic person. She truly deserved the Wikipedia page.
I gave her as an example for a person who had a tough beginning and yet became a superhero, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller , who was another very inspiring superheroine who was both deaf and blind from birth and yet became a famous intellectual, in this Google-Plus post titled "Buffy is not a nobody", which gives a download/streaming link to an excerpt from the famous (and very feminist/women-lib show) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gives the transcript from the wikipedia, and then gives my interpretation and conclusions:
* https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/dDJwvtcGE5N
* /r/buffy discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/28ixp6/buffy_is_not_a_nobody_she_is_b...
Stay cool and smashing and become even more so!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish