Heh, I see I've been upstaged. But, yes, and John is an even better Wikisource advocate than I was on the other thread. :-)
Dominic On 9/15/11 3:44 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sarah Stierch<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have >> contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman who >> ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is much >> of anything related to women's history on Wikisource... > 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) > > 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 > > There are many more ladies who have been very involved over the years, > and they usually arnt far away. > (people dont rage-quit Wikisource. Wikisource looses contributors > because they rage-quit English Wikipedia, and they stop editing > Wikisource at the same time.) > > If you're looking for a topical place to start, we have portals such as > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women > > When preparing for a training sessions for Australian > librarians(mostly women) in Miles, Queensland, I extracted a list of > women from a book of notable Australians > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index_talk:Johns%27s_notable_Australians_1908.djvu > Sadly the Wikipedia training session went over the allocated time and > we didnt look at this. We have another training session for > Queensland librarians coming up soon. > _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
