Hi Risker/Anne and all, On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:34:51 -0400 Risker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly > surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week > were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both > featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative > article. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffic_report > > A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage Ross > (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article. > I admit I wasn't familiar with Maya Angelou before I learned of her death, but having read about her, I realised she was a truly heroic woman who suffered through a lot and still maintained a good spirit, and with some ingenuity, resourcefulness, persistence, and courage, became a superheroic person. She truly deserved the Wikipedia page. I gave her as an example for a person who had a tough beginning and yet became a superhero, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller , who was another very inspiring superheroine who was both deaf and blind from birth and yet became a famous intellectual, in this Google-Plus post titled "Buffy is not a nobody", which gives a download/streaming link to an excerpt from the famous (and very feminist/women-lib show) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gives the transcript from the wikipedia, and then gives my interpretation and conclusions: * https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/dDJwvtcGE5N * /r/buffy discussion - http://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/comments/28ixp6/buffy_is_not_a_nobody_she_is_buffy_the_vampire/ Stay cool and smashing and become even more so! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil redirects to XSLT. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/ 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
