[Gendergap] A pet peeve / cliche

[Sydney Poore]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:59 AM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 01:55, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > To have a serious response to the problem, let's have a
>> > 'Women Post to Wiki' month, and have a banner
>> > about it on every Wiki page during the month.  It validates that
>> > the world community accepts women as experts, and invites
>> > women to post who may have thought about it before, but didn't.
>> > I love that Google has different logos every day. Wiki
>> > can have a different logo for that month.
>> >
>> > - Susan Spencer Conklin
>> >
>> Susan, I think this is a great idea. International Women's Day is on March
>> 8.
>> http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp
>>
>> Could we organize a women's edit month/week around that?
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>
> This is definitely doable and happened in a limited way in the past.
>
> The English Wikipedia DYK will pick theme related articles related to
> special dates such as International Women's Day. Last year they selected new
> articles that were related to women for the Main Page DYK section on this
> day. And the majority of the articles that I created last March for US
> Womens Histiory Month appeared as DYK on the Main Page.
>
> This explains how the DYK special occasion holding area works.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know#Special_occasion_holding_area
>
> See this as an example of the notice that is left on the article talk page
> after the DYK appears.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Rhoda_Fox_Graves&diff=prev&oldid=347942465
>
> Last year during March at the last minute I asked Wikipedia English
> Military History Project editors to work on articles about women and got
> some people (mostly guys) interested.
>
> Other types of Wikiprojects do the same type of thing. For example,
> Wikiquote selects daily quotes that are related to themes. Wikisource also
> selects new entries for their main page
>
> I'm pretty sure that with better expose of the idea it would spread even
> farther to other language Wikipedia, and other WMF projects.
>
> Sydney Poore
> (FloNight)
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/March#8_March_2010

These are the DYKs that ran last March 8. Many were related to women but not
all. This would have most likely been because there were not enough new
articles that met DYK criteria to fill the slots.

Sydney

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