Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
Hi Sandra, I don't think there have been any in the past unless you count my discussions with Els Kloek about the 1001 vrouwen project. She is not a technical person and couldn't help me with the metadata but loves Wikipedia and arranged for me to meet up with the Biografischportaal website manager who could point me to their api. The 1001 vrouwen are all indexed through that portal, and it includes lots more women for whom they haven't started writing modern biographies yet. I guess the closest thing in English is the CLARA database of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which is now indexed on Mix-n-Match thanks to Magnus here: http://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ Anyone can match on that and use it to clean up Wikidata items. If you have any other databases like that then let's get them on Mix-n-Match too! BTW, Sebastiaan uploaded the video of me explaining last Friday how to match in Mix-n-Match here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpyM1MlwW2Ufeature=youtu.be For the Wikidatans among you all, please also vote on a new property for CLARA here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Authority_control#CLARA Jane On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or twice) Like a wikipedian in residencesort of? Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and did consistent programming...yet. Sarah On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
Yes, I mean an ongoing thing - not just one or two edit-a-thons. Not really a Wikipedian in Residence project - more like a long-term commitment and project in which several activities take place over a longer time, with maybe several Wikipedia volunteers involved. Perhaps Europeana Fashion comes close?? Greetings, Sandra On 19 Nov 2014, at 16:18, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or twice) Like a wikipedian in residencesort of? Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and did consistent programming...yet. Sarah On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
The only thing I can think of is the fembot/femtech programs that have women editing in a myriad of things - education programs, events etc but its not a formal thing. Myself, Adrianne and Alex have been involved but again its not formal The Europeana fashion is sort what you are going for...or Wikimedia UK with their relationship with the Royal society...but it's more seasonal than ongoing... I'd love to see more formalized things. On Nov 19, 2014 11:57 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I mean an ongoing thing - not just one or two edit-a-thons. Not really a Wikipedian in Residence project - more like a long-term commitment and project in which several activities take place over a longer time, with maybe several Wikipedia volunteers involved. Perhaps Europeana Fashion comes close?? Greetings, Sandra On 19 Nov 2014, at 16:18, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or twice) Like a wikipedian in residencesort of? Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and did consistent programming...yet. Sarah On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
Hi Sandra, You may find these educational materials helpful when you think about designing your program. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemic_bias_workshop_kit.pdf Seeing some consistent programming with an organization would be great! Good luck! -Emily On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I can think of is the fembot/femtech programs that have women editing in a myriad of things - education programs, events etc but its not a formal thing. Myself, Adrianne and Alex have been involved but again its not formal The Europeana fashion is sort what you are going for...or Wikimedia UK with their relationship with the Royal society...but it's more seasonal than ongoing... I'd love to see more formalized things. On Nov 19, 2014 11:57 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I mean an ongoing thing - not just one or two edit-a-thons. Not really a Wikipedian in Residence project - more like a long-term commitment and project in which several activities take place over a longer time, with maybe several Wikipedia volunteers involved. Perhaps Europeana Fashion comes close?? Greetings, Sandra On 19 Nov 2014, at 16:18, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or twice) Like a wikipedian in residencesort of? Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and did consistent programming...yet. Sarah On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] previous (structural) collaboration with organisations on women's history?
Hi Sandra, The Wiki Education Foundation has done collaborations like that. We work with a handful of academic associations in the U.S. who encourage their members (professors who teach in that discipline) to assign their students to fill content gaps on Wikipedia. We've had a lot of success with the project. You can see the outcomes of the sociology one, which has had an impact on the gender gap on the English Wikipedia, in this recent article: http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct14/wikipedia_0914.html Our Educational Partnerships Manager, Jami Mathewson, is working with the National Women's Studies Association to form a similar collaboration right now; Jami and one of our volunteers spent last weekend at their annual conference, both hosting an exhibit about how to fill content gaps in women's studies through classroom programs and having a two-session workshop in the conference schedule. I know Jami's working on a blog post with more information about her experiences soon, so look out for that on Wiki Ed's blog. I definitely highly recommend projects like this as great ways to target content gaps (but I'll emphasize that the reason this works is because we have a vibrant support structure for our wider educational efforts -- see more at http://wikiedu.org/for-instructors/ ). I know Wikimedia Nederland has been talking about getting going with an education program; maybe you should talk with them to see if you can connect your idea to the existing education plan? More info on that is here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/August_2014/Pilot_projects_by_Wikimedia_Nederland Hope this helps, LiAnna On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandra, You may find these educational materials helpful when you think about designing your program. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemic_bias_workshop_kit.pdf Seeing some consistent programming with an organization would be great! Good luck! -Emily On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I can think of is the fembot/femtech programs that have women editing in a myriad of things - education programs, events etc but its not a formal thing. Myself, Adrianne and Alex have been involved but again its not formal The Europeana fashion is sort what you are going for...or Wikimedia UK with their relationship with the Royal society...but it's more seasonal than ongoing... I'd love to see more formalized things. On Nov 19, 2014 11:57 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I mean an ongoing thing - not just one or two edit-a-thons. Not really a Wikipedian in Residence project - more like a long-term commitment and project in which several activities take place over a longer time, with maybe several Wikipedia volunteers involved. Perhaps Europeana Fashion comes close?? Greetings, Sandra On 19 Nov 2014, at 16:18, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean more like an ongoing thing? Not just once a year? (Or twice) Like a wikipedian in residencesort of? Many of us collaborate with organizations and groups - often the same..to do this kind of stuff but not many people have sat in a role and did consistent programming...yet. Sarah On Nov 19, 2014 12:38 AM, Sandra Fauconnier sandra.fauconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, (This is still in the making, so no solid promises or plans yet.) In the Netherlands a small group of representatives of organisations that deal with women’s history is seriously brainstorming about a longer-term project to represent the Dutch women’s history better on Wikipedia. Together with a few other Dutch Wikipedians, I’m brainstorming together with them (and will probably help them during the actual process when the project takes off). At this moment, our plan is to narrow our focus to the subject of Dutch second-wave feminism and to ‘recruit’ university docents to do Wikipedia-oriented courses with students. We hope that a few enthusiastic university teachers will teach a term course on second-wave feminism (probably one term of the 2015-16 academic year), and that students will be asked to write or improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment. My question to this list is the following: The organisations’ representatives are curious whether there are any earlier, similar projects that we can refer to, and learn from. Are there? I mean: projects in which local Wikipedians have worked together with local feminist organisations, or women’s history organisations, in order to structurally improve content on Wikipedia. I did a bit of searching around on the various Gender Gap project pages (I admit: superficially) but couldn’t find any so far. I’m aware of the Art+Feminism edit-a-thons. In any case - all suggestions and tips are very welcome. Many thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster)
