Also coverage of varying quality in ... The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9439046/Chairman-of-Wikipedia-charity-banned-after-pornography-row.html Civil Society (media outlet focused on charities) http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/13090/wikimedia_chairman_banned_from_editing_wikipedia Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/bondage-porn-links-earn-uk-wikipedia-charity-boss-a-ban-from-editing-the-site/ Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/01/50-shades-wikipedia-uk-head-banned-after-bondage-porn-ties/ On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Sandra Ordonez <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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