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Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Cindy Ashley-Nelson > "Yes. Her again." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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