Hello Nina, (and Aude, Sue, Erik, Sarah, and Fred)
Looking through the archives I see fuller introductions are in order so I'll explain my history with Wikimedia Projects and my reason for joining.
My name is Sydney Poore. I currently spend most of my time in Florida. By eduction is as a Registered Nurse and Sociology.
In the past I worked as Obstetrical and Gynecological Registered Nurse. More recently my husband and I bought a Merle Norman Cosmetic Store and an art gallery in St. Augustine Florida.
I began editing Wikipedia English in 2005 and later started contributing to other projects, primarily Commons, English Wikiquote and Wikisource.
As a volunteer I've gotten very involved with the administrative side of English Wikipedia and to a lesser extent the Wikimedia Foundation. I've helped out by serving time on the Wikipedia English Arbitration Committee and hold Oversight and Checkuser tools there. Also have assisted with the WMF Strategic Planning Project as facilitator of the Community Health task force (which looked at ways to help the WMF projects grow and thrive). Currently I hold a seat on the WMF Ombudsmen Commission (reviews complaints about the violation of the WMF privacy policy).
My frequent contact with women in my daily work is in sharp contrast to the number of women who I encounter on WMF Projects and I think this makes me especially sensitive to the gender issue.
Sydney
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Nina Wikipedia nina.wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
I am Nina (Nina-no) from Norway. I am an Art historian, but have also Sociology and Cultural studies in my background. I have been on the Norwegian Wikipedia from 2004.
Yesterday we had was stories in the press in Norway about motherblogers , and i am wondering why mothers are writing in blogs and Facebook and not on Wikipedia. I think we have to ask this question and try to find the answer.
Nina nina.wikipedia@gmail.com
Den 1. feb. 2011 kl. 13.44 skrev Sydney Poore:
Joined the mailing list today. I have a long standing interest in the gender gap on Wikimedia projects.
My view is that the gender gap is real (based on stats and experience ) and harming our content because of the biases introduced from a male heavy culture.
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