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/Traff… 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 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Christine ____________________ Christine W. Meyer christinewmeyer(a)gmail.com 208/310-1549 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Christine ____________________ Christine W. Meyer christinewmeyer(a)gmail.com 208/310-1549 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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.

Hi Christine, On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 22:16:17 -0700 Christine Meyer <christinewmeyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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: * http://imgur.com/NmQOgTH Love you (♥)! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ I feel much better, now that I’ve given up hope. — Ashleigh Brilliant Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap