This project sounds great!

However, the phrase 'Celebrate Women' doesn't have any meaning, and could be anything - it could be a Solstice-based party in somebody's cornfield or an online family-planning course. Consider how effective a campaign called 'Celebrate Men' would be.

We're trying to appeal to people with expertise and experience, who need something meaningful to get their attention.

- Susan Spencer Conklin

Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:34:22 -0700 (MST) From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net Subject: [Gendergap] Celebrate Women To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 38179.66.243.192.69.1298342062.squirrel@webmail.fairpoint.net Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

Let's do a Wikipedia wide project, call it "Celebrate Women". There might be banners featuring either articles about women, or women editors. Featured articles during this period, of perhaps a year, would be biographies of women or even women played significant roles in.

Lists of articles which are needed or which need improvement could be drawn up and, of course, projects started.

By the way, work on the article "role model" is progressing and will eventually include a section on positive, as opposed to celebrity, role models, both male and female. I think there are quite a few resources, once you start looking for them in terms of lists of admired women, or men.

Fred