Phoebe, that's so cool! It's always nice to see other people working on women scientists. :)
Myself, I've been taking a break from the scientific biography and working on [[Blue Qur'an]] - it's such a beautiful manuscript and so unique! kei On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:53 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good luck with the AfC backlog Sarah - it depresses me to just think >> about that. >> ... >> >> After talking about it for 2 years, I have finally created the list of >> Frans Hals paintings, and though I promised myself I would be done by >> the museum's "birthday" of May 14th, of course people keep reminding >> me now about other paintings to include. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Frans_Hals >> > > That's very cool! > > Lately I've been mostly spending my time planning events in the San > Francisco region: our Maker Faire booth was this past weekend, and we're > having an edit-a-thon on Sat 25 (you should come if you're in the area!) > And I'm giving a talk to a big group of librarians on Wednesday. > > Editing-wise I've mainly been doing routine cleanup (and work on > Wikidata!)... I've been slowly working on longtime projects to reference > biographies of National Medal of Science winners and biographies of > scientists that are listed in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, > focusing on the women. And I recently went on an article rating kick for > the engineering wikiproject (which needs some love!). > > One neat thing: I recently stumbled across and did a little work on the > article about the amazing Dorothy Garrod: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Garrod > I love it when I come across a biography of someone that I knew nothing > about before and am just totally blown away by their work and career. > > cheers, > -- phoebe > > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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