Hi Sarah > I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian > participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia.
about a. thank you, I will ask her for her own opinion, and also her colleague, living against the same double/triple possible discrimination factor if I may say so, who wrote me today that since this workshop she now considering Wikipedia seriously - and I have already seen very good editing results, too! Today she was suggesting we build a Wikipedia 2 for women only - there must have been a reason, will find out about part b. the specifics that the first mentioned colleague shared with us in the workshop I am now finding out more about, listening to Wikipedia results of the image-to-sound transcript software that is in use with my colleagues - then I need to find the appropriate WP forum/page for suggesting improvements (and I have not doubt there is a need for action for real inclusion, "accessibility" and "usability") - I am a real newcomer to this, any WP-specific suggestions where I might go with the new insights? thank you for bringing this up, Sarah, highly appreciated Claudia On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:24:54 -0700, Sarah Stierch wrote > On 5/31/12 11:45 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Sarah, hi @all, > > > > thank you, Sarah, for this new thread > > and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like > > the teahouse :-) > > Yeah! Glad you like the Teahouse. I can't wait to share the data with > people and explore more ways to get it in the hands of women who need > help editing! > > > at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians > > who meet over the extended > > weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this > > year for another fabulous self- > > organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural > > programme and a manifestation in > > downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one > > of the acknowledged hallmarks > > of this meeting, called "LFT" (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring > > meetings) > > I love how you always share information about these gatherings. I do > think that German lesbians surely must be the most active when it comes > to intellectual gatherings, merely based on all the activities you share > with us. > > > for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and > > spontaneously co-moderated by a > > visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants > > Wow. I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian > participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia. > > > > > for a short round-up of what "Lesbenfruehling" meetings are doing to > > promote transparency > > and openness also in other respects: > > the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for > > lesbians in neighbouring countries > > like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since > > 2004), Hungary (EU member since > > 2007) and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe > > http://www.coe.int/ that is human rights- > > related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and > > Hungary on servere downsides, > > with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and > > transphobic bills that we are > > fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our > > panel speakers from Croatia belong to > > the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir "Le Zbor" > > (www.lezbor.com) and the last song of their > > evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had > > workshops dedicated more > > specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on > > an initiative to finally put up a > > specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration > > camp Ravensbrueck that was > > women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian > > individuals that died because > > of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not > > want to leave the country early > > enough in those years). > > Wow, sounds really moving and powerful the work that people are aiming > towards. The unification of these womyn is pretty amazing! > > > > > this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture > > of openness that I think is close to > > what Wikipedia is aiming at, too, > > Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing as always Claudia! > > -Sarah > > -- > *Sarah Stierch* > */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* > >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today > <https://donate.wikimedia.org/><< thanks & cheers, Claudia [email protected] _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
