My own thoughts echo those expressed by others. Great job, Christine! No surprise though, I think your work is outstanding!
Cindy On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com>wrote: > Christine, that's truly awesome. :-) > > I've watched you working on the Maya Angelou topic for years now, and > thrilled to see that you've got her biography to FA. It will be fantastic > for her article to be on the main page on her birthday as a feature article! > > Sydney > User:FloNight > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Christine Meyer < > christinewme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've been doing my part in addressing the gender gap in en.Wikipedia, and >> this week marks a major accomplishment for me in this area and for me as an >> editor. [[Maya Angelou]] is now a featured article. >> >> I've been literally working on Angelou's article for years; my very first >> edit of it was early in my WP-editing career, in September 2007: [diff >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maya_Angelou&diff=prev&oldid=158867180]. >> It took this long mostly because I do have a life, most of the time. When >> I came across it, I realized that Angelou's work and life was sorely >> underrepresented and not at all comprehensive, way before I came to >> understand the gender gap in this project. I also realized that in order >> to do the subject justice, I needed to become a MA-expert, something >> I definitely was not at the time. I realized that at the very least, I >> needed to read her six autobiographies, and while I was at it, write >> articles about them. Only one article existed at the time: her first >> autobiography [[I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]], which was in >> a pitiable state. A year's worth of research, a lot of assistance from >> some of the most premiere editors in the project, and 3 FACs later, it >> became an FA. >> >> In the ensuing years, I created and wrote articles about Angelou's five >> remaining autobiographies (one is a FA, the others are GAs), some ancillary >> articles about her other works, and a couple of lists. ([[Works of Maya >> Angelou]] is currently up for FLC.) After I completed the article about >> Angelou's final autobiography, I worked to get her bio up to snuff, and it >> had a relatively easy FAC, my first FA to pass in its first candidacy. I >> think that was due to the fact that the article was truly prepared before >> it was submitted. For anyone who wants to drive an article through the FAC >> process, that's my advice: make sure it's ready to be reviewed, and do not >> use FAC (or GAC, even) to review it. There are other places for that, so >> use them before bringing it to FAC. >> >> My next goal is to create a Maya Angelou Featured Topic. There are some >> things that need to be accomplished before that; my goal is to get there >> before Dr. Angelou's 85th birthday in April. I'm certain, at the very >> least, that her bio will on the front page. Ironically, this is the week I >> started researching the article about another elderly and important woman: >> [[Joan Ganz Cooney]], co-creator of Sesame Street. >> >> Christine >> Username: Figureskatingfan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- Best regards, Cindy Ashley-Nelson "Yes. *Her again.*" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse
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