Awesome work Laura. We need to create a "Laura Hale Awesome Woman in Sports" award, as you surely must be the most prolific in that arena ever on Wikipedia in any language!
Thanks for all you're doing to improve women's sports representation on Wikipedia - even the challenging content!
-Sarah
On 5/31/12 8:31 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch@gmail.com mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought it'd be refreshing to have a positive thread and something less-...porny, if you will :) *What have /you/ been working on? In any language, on any sister project of Wikimedia? Online and offline? What are you doing to be proactive or contributing as a volunteer, fellow, staff member, etc? Don't be shy, share your work! Be bold and be proud*! What about you? Online and offline activities, I'd love to hear about how you've being proactive and what you're working on!In mid-May, I got the opportunity to attend the Australia women's national basketball team training camp, where myself and two Commons photographers got to take pictures. We published two Wikinews stories about this: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Raw_Opals_spend_week_preparing_for_London_Games and http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_media_focuses_on_Olympic_prospects_ag... .
In preparation for this, before, during and after, we improved articles related to the players. Thus far the following have appeared as DYKs:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Jackson
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Poto
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Hurst
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Penaluna
I've nominated three articles about these women for DYK in the past 24 hours.
Beyond basketball, I rescued http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_kickboxing_in_Australia from deletion. The article talks about illegality of women's participation in a sport and the involvement of a minority group in Australia in the sport.
I've slowly been working on creating wanted articles about women's national football teams. In the past two months, I have taken four of the articles about women's football teams in Africa to GA. There are now more GAs about women's teams than men's teams in Africa. Several of these articles have appeared at DYK recently including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_women%27s_national_footbal... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla_women%27s_national_football_team and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambia_women%27s_national_football_team .
Today, I also wrote http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_water_polo_team_into_FINA_Wo... http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_water_polo_team_into_FINA_Women%27s_World_League_Super_Finals_quarter_finals for Wikinews, which I have submitted for publication.
Should be having a meeting next week to discuss with some one in the Australian government about women's sport and Wikipedia.
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