Thanks for your perspective and anecdotes Florence.
On 8/31/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
On 8/31/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: [snip]
I will not comment on the "few women in the upper echelons of Wikipedia", but I can comment on the "very numerous women in the upper echelons of the Foundation". http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimania_2007_dungodung_79.jpg this is a picture taken at Wikimania, the first wikichix meeting.
From top, going to the right Sue Gardner, head of executive Henna, dev, from netherlands Phoebe, usa, leader of Wikimania 2006 and co-organiser of 2007 Frieda, italian, chair of Wikimedia Italy, board member of WMF Delphine, french, chapter coordinator of WMF Oooops, memory hole... Brianna, australia, wikicommons (keen I think) Another memory hole, shame on me. She is german and very involved in various Wikimedia Deutschland activity. Kat, usa, board member Aphaia, japanese, translation committee head Anthere, chair of WMF Sandy, communication manager
The second "memory hole" (in the black t-shirt) seems to be Nina Gerlach (I *think* but I'm not sure if this is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Nina). I can't make out who is in the blue top, to Delphine's left.
Absolutely, it is Nina !
On misogyny and sexism as engrained practices - it's still quite a sorry state of the world - I wonder if the Wikichix group has developed any resources for the wider community to ponder, and to take action?
Aside from Conferences such as the LinuxChix Womens, the last main topics of discussion have been child care reimbursement issues (do not let me go again in that one Cormac :-)), childcare made available in conferences (planned for Wikimania 2008, we actually had funds proposed for 2007, but too late to make sense. Next year will be the right one), citizendium (limited female editing), and very recently, cyberstalking (in particular of women).
I would not say we developped any resources really. But I'd say that it is heart warming, and I like it.
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Cormac
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