Very pleased to see this come out of that Editathon. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear all, > > Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions to the > Wikimedia article gender balance from a slightly unexpected source. > > On Saturday, Wikimedia UK had a World War I-themed Editathon[1], where we > essentially put a lot of Wikimedians and a group of academics in a room and > asked them to help improve coverage of World War I. > > The gender balance was markedly better amongst the academics we'd invited > (4 men, 3 women) than among the Wikimedians (20 men, no women at all) - > which prompted quite a lot of debate about gender balance among Wikimedia > volunteers (not very good) and also about the gender balance of Wikipedia's > coverage of the topic (also, not very good!). It might also be that we'd > taken a lot of steps to promote the event amongst the English Wikipedia's > large and active military history community (which probably has worse than > average gender balance, at a guess). > > I'm pleased to say that one of the outcomes from the event is an article, > currently in sandbox but well worthy of a DYK nom when in due course, on > the topic of "Surplus women" - a demographic imbalance that existed (or was > perceived) in Western Europe in the industrial era, accentuated by the mass > slaughter of World War I, and hitherto completely absent from Wikipedia. > You can have a look at it here :-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ErrantX/Sandbox/Surplus_women > > Many thanks, > > Chris > Wikimedia UK > > > [1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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