Well done Daniel - great article! Inspired by your efforts and Sarah's session, I have beefed up another of the proposed articles. Although I have not done enough to make a DYK, it's better than it was. Here she is - Alice Wheeldon<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Wheeldon&pe=1&;>, whose commitment to peace and anti-war activism cost her a lot.
Cheers, Whiteghost.ink On 24 July 2012 14:12, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <[email protected]>wrote: > A little over a week after Wikimania, where I participated in the “10 > women in 10 minutes” session Sarah led, I have gotten the article my group > worked on, [[Adrienne Bolland]], through DYK to the Main Page queue, with > two other editors who worked on it sharing in the credit. It is currently > scheduled to run on July 25, in the evening rotation in Europe, afternoon > here in North American Eastern time where I live and morning on the West > Coast, and early morning July 26 in Oceania/Asia. > > I have two takeaways from the experience to offer anyone else > participating in, or running, one of these events. > > > 1. *Cast a wide net for sources* when looking to expand a stubby > article. I was attracted to this one because the Francophone Wikipedia has > a longer article on her; unfortunately it’s tagged as lacking sources. But > at least I can read French well enough to figure out what should have been > included in the English article, and that helped to guide us. Reflecting > the multilingual group we were, the final article has sources from not only > French and English (Monash University in Australia has a nice set of pages > on aviation pioneers) but German and Spanish as well (The German book we > cited actually seems like a good source; it seems to be meant for younger > readers and thus was at about the right level for me to read—somehow, when > I looked at it, German (which I’ve never formally studied) came through > clearer than it ever has. Unfortunately the Google preview ends right when > the story starts getting good. Perhaps some German reader can find the > hardcover book and see if there’s anything else worth adding). Other > sources tapped include the Air France inflight magazine, a school website > in France and the World Postal Union website (which would seem to be a > good, reliable, authoritative source for stamp information). > 2. *Not all the work done by editors physically collaborating shows up > in the history*. Sitting there putting our heads together, we were > able to come to a consensus on whether a particular source was reliable > and, when two of our sources conflicted as to a particular fact, which to > include. > > I hope you like the final result as much as I liked writing it (Mme. > Bolland makes a nice feminist role model—after her aviation career, she was > in the French women’s-suffrage movement, then supported the Republicans > during the Spanish Civil War and was active in the resistance during the > war. The more I researched, the more I liked her and felt honored to be > improving her Wikipedia article. > > Now, I hope, the French article can be properly referenced and the other > articles expanded. User:Maire, who was in our group, promised she would get > around to doing a Polish translation, which left me with Russian among the > languages I’d feel comfortable editing in that aren’t represented yet among > the interwiki links. Which I’ll do when I can figure out how to properly > transliterate her first name and which of four possible pronunciations I > can think of for her last name is the right one. > > Or someone else here can take up the challenge. It’s worth it. > > Daniel Case > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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