Christine - the same goes for African American artists - and people in general. I write a lot about artists - have you thought about playing around with Dr. Angelou's work on Wikiquote?
-Sarah On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Christine Meyer <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a great idea, and I've accepted the invitation to join this on > Facebook. Although I'm going to be rebellious and instead of working on the > article about a woman in STEM, I'm going to continue to work on [[Maya > Angelou]]. > > I've been working on several of Dr. Angelou's articles for the past few > years; most of them are either GAs or FAs, including her most important > autobiography, [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]. Her main bio page needs > lots of work, so these days I've been doing some more research. Five out of > six of her autobiographies have been expanded, and they're at least GAs. > I've been pretty much alone in this endeavor, but it's been enjoyable and > I've learned lots from, to borrow from one of Angelou's poems, "a phenomenal > woman". > > Articles about autobiographies and their writers aren't well represented on > WP, and I believe that she's the only African African author that has a FA. > Black writers, both male and female, of any genre, aren't well represented, > either. So forgive me if my efforts don't technically fit the perimeters of > the event. Or not--either way, I don't care, and as my mother would say, > I'm gonna do what I want anyway. ;) > > Christine > User: Figureskatingfan > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Amy Senger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone - >> >> TechCocktail just ran a post about "Changing the Ratio" of female editors >> in Wikipedia: >> http://techcocktail.com/changing-the-ratio-wikipedia-2011-10 >> >> And it mentions the Facebook campaign I've started to change your profile >> pic on Ada Lovelace Day (this Friday, Oct 7) and to edit or contribute to >> the Wikpedia page of a woman in STEM. I hope you'll join me: >> https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154261054664442 >> >> Best, >> Amy >> -- >> * >> co-founder, 1X57 >> www.1x57.com <http://1x57.com/> >> M: 202.423.6609 >> T: @sengseng <http://twitter.com/sengseng> >> >> * >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/
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