Nice work Netha and Emily! -Sarah
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Netha Hussain <nethahuss...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Dear all, > > Here is a blog post interviewing Emily Temple-Wood, the co-founder of > Wikiproject: > Women > Scientists<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>. > Congratulations, Emily! > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?just_reloaded=1 > > - Netha > > > Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily > Temple-Wood > Posted: 01/04/2014 > 14:28<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?view=print&comm_ref=false> > Follow > Wikipedia <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia/>, United > States<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/united-states/> > , Editing <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/editing/>, Gender > Gaps<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gender-gaps/> > , Interview <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/interview/>, Systemic > Bias <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/systemic-bias/>, > Woman<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/woman/> > , UK Tech News <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech> > > *GET UK TECH NEWSLETTERS:* > SUBSCRIBE > > "I love to collect information, and I love that I get to share that > information with the world," says Emily Temple-Wood, a veteran editor on > English Wikipedia. Emily, who likes reading encyclopedias from > cover-to-cover, finds writing on Wikipedia a transition from being a > consumer to a creator of knowledge. > > Her first attempt at writing on Wikipedia was in 2005, when she was 10 > years old. She wrote a page about her little sister saying that she was a > "stupid butthead", which got removed from Wikipedia instantly. As she grew > older, she knew that she could do more productive things on Wikipedia. > > In 2007, when Emily Temple-Wood created an account on Wikipedia, she was > just 12 years old. She started off by categorizing and cleaning up existing > wikipedia articles. Eventually, she found it and useful to contribute > knowledge to Wikipedia. Her first interest was endangered languages. She > created several articles related to endangered languages and became > dedicated to Wikipedia. > > Emily, now 19, has written over 200 articles on Wikipedia. Lately, she has > been writing about rare genetic diseases, Islamic history and mythology. > Her pet project is Wikiproject: Women > scientists<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>, > an initiative to create and expand articles about women scientists. > "WikiProject Women Scientists is growing into a nice space for contributing > to this less-covered area and we are gaining some active participants, so > that is great! I'm so glad to be a part of something that is making a real > difference on Wikipedia," she says. She is also an administrator on > Wikipedia, a trusted editor who has been granted the technical ability to > perform special actions on English Wikipedia. > > [image: > 2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG]<http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG> > > Emily is an undergraduate student at the Loyola University in Chicago, > majoring in molecular biology with additional two minors : Arabic and > Islamic world studies. She aspires to go to graduate school and get an MD/ > PhD in medicine to fulfil her dream of becoming research physician. She has > basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean and French and wants to be a fluent > speaker of these three languages someday. She is undergoing training as an > emergency medical technician along with her undergraduate studies. Because > of the many real-life commitments, Emily is not being able to spend as much > time for writing articles as she wants. > > "First of all, I schedule time to edit, either with workshops or with > friends. Editing with friends makes it a lot easier to make the time for > it. I also edit as I read. Like many of us, I use Wikipedia every day to > look up facts and whenever I see something that needs to be fixed, I do it. > Treating my editing as a social endeavor has been really helpful and > definitely motivates me to contribute more, and I think that's my message > to fellow women. Have fun together while editing - enjoy food and drink and > socialize! Some people take Wikipedia too seriously and make it an > anti-social space a lot of the time, so you can counter that by enjoying > wiki-socialization in real life and being serious online.", says Emily when > asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of > real-life and online volunteering. > > She is also a Individual Engagement > Grantee<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> of > the Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>, the > not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia. In her role as a grantee, > she is aiming to create a new model for bringing women into the Wikimedia > movement and creating more content to fill the coverage gap with topics > related to women, especially biographies of women. She is trying to change > the gender situation on English Wikipedia where only around 10-25 percent > of all contributors are women. She is also looking forward to create a best > practice kit for running workshops on systemic bias. Systemic bias is an > insidious problem on Wikipedia, where women, people of color, and > non-Western topics are severely underrepresented. She thinks that her > biggest contribution to the Wikipedia community has been helping to bring > awareness about the systemic bias problem. She has attended three > international conferences, where she presented her learnings and > experiences in working with Wikipedia. She finds it exciting to get to > travel around the world and meet amazing Wikipedians from different > language communities. > > Emily thinks that "women's voices are so important in this [Wikipedia] > community and [women] need to speak up, especially because there are so few > women participating in the movement". She asks women "to trust in their own > competence and jump in, and don't take criticism too hard," to be a > successful writer on Wikipedia. You can view Emily's userpage on Wikipedia > here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana>. > > *Copyright notes: Image by Fuzheado (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 > (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) > <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)>], via Wikimedia Commons* > > > *Follow Netha Hussain on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nethahussain > <http://www.twitter.com/nethahussain>* > FOLLOW UK TECH > > > -- > Netha Hussain > Student of Medicine and Surgery > Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode > Blogs : > *nethahussain.blogspot.com <http://nethahussain.blogspot.com> > swethaambari.wordpress.com <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>* > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com
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