I'll be keeping an eye on the articles, as well as following up with the participants - I ended up knowing most of them personally from other contexts, anyway. From talking to them, I suspect this event will have resulted in the recruitment of at least a couple of long-term content editors :) I was especially surprised that Margaret Davies didn't have an article already - besides for her co-op work (well, really as a part of it) she was also instrumental in reforming British divorce law, and her work was generally regarded as the critical catalyst for the legal changes that allowed British women access to divorce on an equal basis to that of British men.
---- Kevin Gorman On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin, > Thanks for posting! Is anyone keeping an eye on developments with > these articles or any list of redlinks you may have created in > discussions? It would be really helpful to see how this develops over > time and especially helpful to find out if any of these women become > editors in the long run. > Jane > > 2013/4/7, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]>: > > Hi all - > > > > Today I helped run an editathon at an all-women's cooperative in > Berkeley. > > We attracted maybe fifteen or twenty people over the course of the day, > and > > focused most of our editing on prominent historical women active in the > > cooperative movement. I think we created a number of neat articles, > > although they all have a lot of room for improvement (which hopefully > will > > be coming in part from our new editors - engagement was much higher than > I > > am used to for an event like this!) We also improved a number of existing > > articles. > > > > These are the articles we created: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Acland > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania_Federation_of_Co-operatives > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Llewelyn_Davies > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Webb_(Co-operative_Activist) > > > > There's little information about most of these women online, but there's > an > > awful lot available in books. The sources we had today would've allowed > us > > to expand the articles a lot further than we did, but we were operating > > under some time constraints (plus the whole teaching people wikicode > part.) > > If anyone is further interested in expanding these articles (especially > > those about Alice, Margaret, or Catherine,) there's a huge amount of > > information available about them in these books: > > *The woman with the basket; the history of the Women's Co-operative > Guild, > > 1883-1927. By Catherine Webb > > *The matriarchs of England's cooperative movement : a study in gender > > politics and female leadership, 1883-1921 / Barbara J. Blaszak > > *Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women's Co-operative > > Guild, 1880s to the Second War Main > > *Caring & Sharing, the Centenary History of the Co-operative Women's > Guild > > > > As well as information in a decent number of other books, though not > > much available online. If anyone feels like improving these articles > > further, it'd be awesome, and we'll get to improving them ourselves > > eventually otherwise :) > > > > Just figured I'd share some happiness, > > Kevin Gorman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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