On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman who ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is much of anything related to women's history on Wikisource...
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to Wikipedia.
FloNight is active whenever she can find time. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very active in moderating the tone of the community. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
There are many more ladies who have been very involved over the years, and they usually arnt far away. (people dont rage-quit Wikisource. Wikisource looses contributors because they rage-quit English Wikipedia, and they stop editing Wikisource at the same time.)
If you're looking for a topical place to start, we have portals such as http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women
When preparing for a training sessions for Australian librarians(mostly women) in Miles, Queensland, I extracted a list of women from a book of notable Australians http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908.... Sadly the Wikipedia training session went over the allocated time and we didnt look at this. We have another training session for Queensland librarians coming up soon.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to Wikipedia.
FloNight is active whenever she can find time. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)
I love Wikisource. It might be my favorite wikiproject. I met John there way back in 2007 when I was adding poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and adding children stories. :-)
I need to see what I can related to my most recent women's articles on WP.
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very active in moderating the tone of the community. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
BirgitteSB, is a great resource. She is knowledgeable about Wikisource and WMF policy in general.
Sydney
Heh, I see I've been upstaged. But, yes, and John is an even better Wikisource advocate than I was on the other thread. :-)
Dominic
On 9/15/11 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sarah Stierchsarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman who ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is much of anything related to women's history on Wikisource...
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to Wikipedia.
FloNight is active whenever she can find time. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource)
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very active in moderating the tone of the community. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
There are many more ladies who have been very involved over the years, and they usually arnt far away. (people dont rage-quit Wikisource. Wikisource looses contributors because they rage-quit English Wikipedia, and they stop editing Wikisource at the same time.)
If you're looking for a topical place to start, we have portals such as http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women
When preparing for a training sessions for Australian librarians(mostly women) in Miles, Queensland, I extracted a list of women from a book of notable Australians http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908.... Sadly the Wikipedia training session went over the allocated time and we didnt look at this. We have another training session for Queensland librarians coming up soon.
Me too!! I've been doing a bunch of Wikisource work lately, and am continually impressed by the level of civility and all-around helpfulness of those folks.
Some of the tasks that take place in Wikisource require a little more technical knowhow than the other projects, so it's great to have a group of folks who will patiently walk you through that stuff.
They have a great IRC channel, too -- that one and Gendergap are the channels I've been keeping open lately. For anyone who speaks any French -- one of the things I enjoy in the Wikisource IRC channel is the pleasant mix of English and French discussions that take place.
-Pete
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Dominic dmcdevit@cox.net wrote:
Heh, I see I've been upstaged. But, yes, and John is an even better Wikisource advocate than I was on the other thread. :-)
Dominic
On 9/15/11 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sarah Stierchsarah.stierch@gmail.com
wrote:
Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman
who
ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is
much
of anything related to women's history on Wikisource...
Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to Wikipedia.
FloNight is active whenever she can find time. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on
Wikisource)
One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very active in moderating the tone of the community. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB
There are many more ladies who have been very involved over the years, and they usually arnt far away. (people dont rage-quit Wikisource. Wikisource looses contributors because they rage-quit English Wikipedia, and they stop editing Wikisource at the same time.)
If you're looking for a topical place to start, we have portals such as http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women
When preparing for a training sessions for Australian librarians(mostly women) in Miles, Queensland, I extracted a list of women from a book of notable Australians
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908....
Sadly the Wikipedia training session went over the allocated time and we didnt look at this. We have another training session for Queensland librarians coming up soon.
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