On 23 May 2012 18:48, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > WikiWomenCamp got underway today in Buenos Aires. :D We took a lot of > pictures and videos; when we get home, many of them will be shared on > Commons. We started around 10am with an opening circle led by our lovely > and wonderful facilitator Anne Goldenberg from Montreal. The conference > was facilitated using open space, so we started out with introductions and > why we were here. After the hour long happy introduction fest, we broke > into two groups. The first group discussed statistics for Wikipedia and how > to measure success. The other group involved a discussion about our > personal experiences editing Wikipedia as women and transgendered people. > In both session, an obvious theme emerged that there are many regional and > cultural issues that make doing global projects difficult because these > conditions have to be taken into consideration when doing a project. The > second time period became a single group that went into three session > periods. We discussed why women did not edit Wikipedia on a personal, > regional and global level. At the end of the day, we had a closing session > and one of the major themes of this was how motivated and encouraged we > felt about the situation going forward, that we could go back to our local > communities with a real concept of what the gender gap means both locally > and globally, and have the contacts to enact change. The Argentine > catering was also fantastic (yummy!) and it enabled us to continue our > seriously awesome conversations and all important networking. Tomorrow and > Friday, we're hoping to progress from a problem identification to a more > solution oriented form of thinking. > > > Session notes can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp. > > > Sincerely, > Laura Hale > > - >
Wonderful to hear that the participants are having such a successful session together. I think we will all envy them the delicious Argentine food! I will look forward to seeing the videos and reading more, although I know it will take some time for everyone to get home and digest. Risker/Anne
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