Hi Roger

Yes it's covered in the videos, especially in Victoria's interview. I have yet to interview Alice and Lucy, but I know they acknowledge the allies we have in male editors. As it's our first year doing the videos and there are only 5 Mondays in March, we felt these were the people we wanted to ask. While I appreciate that the gender gap is not only a women's issue, I feel that these women are the best people to speak on their work.

Thanks for the offer. I actually emailed Ewan to offer him a blog spot, but after some discussion Sarah Lappin will be writing one for us on her upcoming event (you can sign up here). Lucy will be covering the work of great Wikimedians in Residence like Ewan, that's sort of the idea for her interview i.e. to round up anything that's not been covered in the first 4 interviews and to ask editors who aren't women to get involved.

Best wishes

Katie

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 14:20, Roger Bamkin <roger@bamkin.org.uk> wrote:

Thanks Katie,

This is good news, but it does continue the idea that the gender gap is a women's problem.

This is much too important to leave to < 20% of our editors.... but maybe these interviews will say that. I hope so.

There have been >45 women in red editathons organised by Ewan and they should get a mention I reckon.

I could offer you a blog on the subject?

Roger

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:12, Katie Crampton <katie.crampton@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Hi all

We've done a series of interviews with some great women who are closing the gender gap on Wikipedia and its sister projects for Women's History Month. They'll be released every Monday in March at 4pm on our YouTube.

First up is Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director at Art+Feminism, going live here. Then we'll have Rebecca O'Neill from Wikimedia Community Ireland, Victoria Leonard from the Women's Classics Committee, Alice White our Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust, and finally Lucy to round up the month and Wikimedia UK's activities.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend in the sunshine.

Best wishes

Katie

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