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From: Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Wiki New Zealand
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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A lady down under has started her own "Wikipedia about New Zealand".
http://www.hawkesbay.co.nz/general-stories-page:/52063-a-new-wikipedia-abou…
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Wiki web to satisfy Kiwi curiosity
If knowledge is power then Lillian Grace's new website -
WikiNewZealand.org - will put power in the hands of ordinary Kiwis.
The concept - which is supported by crowd funding - was seeded a year
ago when the former New Zealand Institute research associate and
physical education teacher sat down under a Hawke's Bay tree to think
out her next hobby. She came up with a Kiwi version of Wikipedia.
Grace hopes her not-for-profit hub of information - mostly data and
statistics represented as graphs and infographics - will, like the
globally recognised online encyclopedia, become a universal resource
for students, business people, politicians and ordinary citizens
alike.
The data on Wiki New Zealand won't be coloured by ideological
viewpoints, or undergo endless revisions, as occurs on Wikipedia; its
main aim is to be an unfettered source of information for rational
debate, whether it is used to settle a bar bet or to inform a
submission to a select committee.
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http://wikinewzealand.org/
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