Dear GenderGappers! I hope that you are all fine.
It was great to see some of you at Wikimania, the women luncheon was a very happy experience! Let me also make you notice that some of us are involved in the organization of a track on gender and diversity in openness at the Open Knowledge Festival (Helsinki 17-22 September 2012). It will be a great opportunity to keep the conversation and move forward the gender conscientiousness in technological and open circles. The Festival is absolutely fantastic, plus, see that there is a possibility to apply for Travel Bursaries http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/ (deadline today 1st August!!! unless you are from a developing country in which case it is August 8th). It would be great that many women attend the Festival (okfestival.org), join the gender and diversity track (http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/) and could take advantage of this Bursaries opportunity (http://okfestival.org/travel-bursaries/). Kisses! Mayo «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ph.D European University Institute E-mail: mayo.fus...@eui.eu Twitter/Identica: Lilaroja Skype: mayoneti Phone United States: 001 - 8576548231 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 Berkman Center 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 +1 (617) 495-7547 (Phone) +1 (617) 495-7641 (Fax) Personal Postal Address USA: The Acetarium http://www.acetarium.com/ 265 Elm Street - 4 Somerville, MA, USA 02144 ________________________________________ From: gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Sandra Ordonez [sandratordo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 3:16 PM To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects Subject: [Gendergap] uk chairman band the uk chairman band was mentioned in daily dot today http://dly.do/M9K4Sv Sent from my iPhone On Aug 1, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson <cindam...@gmail.com<mailto:cindam...@gmail.com>> 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 <sydney.po...@gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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