Awesome work Laura. We need to create a "Laura Hale Awesome Woman in
Sports" award, as you surely must be the most prolific in that arena
ever on Wikipedia in any language!
Thanks for all you're doing to improve women's sports representation on
Wikipedia - even the challenging content!
-Sarah
On 5/31/12 8:31 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sarah Stierch
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I thought it'd be refreshing to have a positive thread and
something less-...porny, if you will :)
*What have /you/ been working on? In any language, on any sister
project of Wikimedia? Online and offline? What are you doing to be
proactive or contributing as a volunteer, fellow, staff member,
etc? Don't be shy, share your work! Be bold and be proud*!
What about you? Online and offline activities, I'd love to hear
about how you've being proactive and what you're working on!
In mid-May, I got the opportunity to attend the Australia women's
national basketball team training camp, where myself and two Commons
photographers got to take pictures. We published two Wikinews stories
about this:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Raw_Opals_spend_week_preparing_for_London_Games
and
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_media_focuses_on_Olympic_prospects_against_US_for_women%27s_basketball
.
In preparation for this, before, during and after, we improved
articles related to the players. Thus far the following have appeared
as DYKs:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Jackson
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Poto
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Hurst
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Penaluna
I've nominated three articles about these women for DYK in the past 24
hours.
Beyond basketball, I rescued
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_kickboxing_in_Australia from
deletion. The article talks about illegality of women's participation
in a sport and the involvement of a minority group in Australia in the
sport.
I've slowly been working on creating wanted articles about women's
national football teams. In the past two months, I have taken four of
the articles about women's football teams in Africa to GA. There are
now more GAs about women's teams than men's teams in Africa. Several
of these articles have appeared at DYK recently including
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_women%27s_national_football_team
,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguilla_women%27s_national_football_team
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambia_women%27s_national_football_team .
Today, I also wrote
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australia_women's_water_polo_team_into_FINA_Women's_World_League_Super_Finals_quarter_finals
<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_water_polo_team_into_FINA_Women%27s_World_League_Super_Finals_quarter_finals>
for Wikinews, which I have submitted for publication.
Should be having a meeting next week to discuss with some one in the
Australian government about women's sport and Wikipedia.
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