On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
As part of their celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the Spanish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Argentina has organized a contest to write biographies of notable Argentine women:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Concurso_Wikipedia_10_-_... They have a list of ideas of missing biographies:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/edici%C3%B3n_21/Lista_de...
What a lovely idea for combating systemic bias. (This will be the 21st (!) article writing contest on es:wp: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso). The contest starts May 22. ¡Feliz cumpleaños, Wikipedia!
-- phoebe
This is really cool. Do I smell a good candidate for a Wikimedia blog post? Perhaps a bilingual one by Wikimedia Argentina?