Hi Kevin, On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:38:54 -0700 Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > sounds good. Keep up the good work. I should note that I successfully used Wikipedia as an analogy for open source collaboration and the fact that "in open source/open content/etc., everyone contributes a brick and in exchange everyone gets their own house" at the booth of the Israeli open source community over at the Olamot Science Fiction/Fantasy conference in Tel Aviv, which seemed like a huge success. Here is my report on the event and some photos I took: * http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2013-March/004518.html * http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/sets/72157633111982891/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ Emacs is a nice operating system, but what it lacks, in order to compete with Linux, is a good text editor. — based on http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emacs Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
