On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ahhh, a topic worth talking about! If we want more women in our > community, I very strongly believe that wikisource is our greatest > chance of bringing them in. librarians and local studies in Australia > are mostly women, and they are usually led by women as well, who can > be good champions for our community. It is a nice quiet environment, > the editing tasks are 'simpler', which provides a nice training ground > for newbies, and the ability to shine new light on old information > gels well with information workers who prefer to blog about insights > into old texts rather than fight to have their text added to > Wikipedia. > > FloNight is active whenever she can find time. > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:FloNight > (i.e. I am confident you can twist Sydney's arm to help you on Wikisource) > I love Wikisource. It might be my favorite wikiproject. I met John there way back in 2007 when I was adding poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and adding children stories. :-) I need to see what I can related to my most recent women's articles on WP. > One of the two 'crats on English Wikisource is a women. She is very > active in moderating the tone of the community. > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BirgitteSB > BirgitteSB, is a great resource. She is knowledgeable about Wikisource and WMF policy in general. Sydney
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