I want to thank this group for your encouraging responses to my students' first posts to Wikipedia. They've been wary of this process for weeks, but they were so excited to see their articles go live and to start getting feedback. Several received gifts of virtual baked goods (from members of this group), and I believe it was members of this group that helped to move articles through the review process at an accelerated pace. We had our last meeting of the academic term yesterday, and we reviewed some of the feedback -- they were all excited, not just for their own articles but for each other. The article on American women's firsts has received some very nice praise; the article on women's shelters has been moved out of 'stub' status; and the 'genderfuck' article was one of the top five active articles on the Wikiproject:Feminism list yesterday. Shortly after class, it became the first of the student pieces to be vandalized, which we're regarding as another badge of honor. ;-)
We've got two more new articles in the queue, as of yesterday: Metaformic theory and feminism in Thailand.
We spent some time talking about continuing to contribute to Wikipedia, and I think you'll see a few return, but a couple of them countered with, "It's a lot of work!" I'll certainly be back, though. I will do this project with the WGS capstone class next year. Later this summer -- after I clear a few other projects from my desk -- I think I'll see about working on some of the articles on menstruation and women's reproductive health. I've been part of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research for many years, and looking at some of the menstruation articles recently, I saw that some could use some development and better references.
Thanks again for all the support.
-EAK