Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!

2012-04-04 Thread Kath O'Donnell
thanks for this. sounds great. I've applied on the page. On 5 April 2012 00:22, Sarah Stierch wrote: > Hi everyone, > > HighBeam is offering free accounts for Wikipedians with an account for one > year and 1000 edits. So far only about 300 people have applied and they > have 1,000 slots. HighBe

Re: [Gendergap] Photo accreditation for the Lesbian Spring in Toulouse (France)

2012-04-04 Thread Caroline Becker
Thanks for all your help, but the new review and the whole en-wikinews policy feels really alien to me. The next reportings I'll do of the Lesbian Spring will be thus in French only. Caroline 2012/4/2 Tom Morris > Caroline, > > I've responded on the talk page with some further advice on how to

Re: [Gendergap] BuzzFeed articles

2012-04-04 Thread Valerie Aurora
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Two recent Buzzfeed articles: > > > 1. Wikipedia's Gender Gap, As Measured By Famous Birthdays, by Anna North > > http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/wikipedias-gender-gap-as-measured-by-famous-birt > > A gender gap continues to plague Wikipedia

[Gendergap] WikiWomen's History Month outcomes

2012-04-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, I am in the process of developing a wrap-up about WikiWomen's History Month! If you created, improved on, uploaded, etc. any content in honor of women's history month it'd be fabulous if you could add your outcomes to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%2

[Gendergap] Smithsonian Edit-a-Thon: blog post

2012-04-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Blog post about the Smithsonian Edit-a-Thon http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2012/04/how-many-women-does-it-take-to-change-wikipedia/ Nice one. :) ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-04 Thread Carol Moore DC
I was wondering if there is a web page I can link to with your comments for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop_for_Women I can link to the newsletter but it only mentions the workshop was all women. Thanks. PS Love the Roo and other photos! On 4/4/2012 10:58 AM, Sarah Stierch wr

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 4/4/12 3:47 AM, Gillian White wrote: Hello all, Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see/This Month in GLAM/ http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report), I wanted to write about it before I forgot. I am

[Gendergap] Fwd: Free accounts available from HighBeam Research!

2012-04-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, HighBeam is offering free accounts for Wikipedians with an account for one year and 1000 edits. So far only about 300 people have applied and they have 1,000 slots. HighBeam is a paid newspaper and journal resource, and as a researcher, even I don't have access to it, so I was ha

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Gillian, thanks for the write-up. I enjoyed reading it. I don't have anything particular to comment about it unfortunately. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:47:45 +1000 Gillian White wrote: > Hello all, > > > Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (

Re: [Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-04 Thread elisabeth bauer
2012/4/4 Gillian White : [...] > Tip: Given them a chance to practise and give them feedback. > > If you have read this far, thanks! Thank _you_ for the really helpful and insightful posting. *forwarding it to some people who can make good use of it* greetings, elian __

[Gendergap] Thoughts on training and gender and training generally

2012-04-04 Thread Gillian White
Hello all, Following on from recent WP editing workshops in Queensland (see* This Month in GLAM* http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2012/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report), I wanted to write about it before I forgot. I am posting here because the workshop participan