I agree with Christine. There is good work being done as learning has taken
place about the strengths and weaknesses of edit-a-thons.
Because it has been know for a few years that one off edit-a-thons create
content but don't grow new users, now many people have been experimenting
with different
Hi,
I've posted a project for the Inspire Campaign and am looking for your
feedback and potential support. The idea is to gather and maintain a
publicly accessible repository of stories of marginalization for use by
admins and researchers in understanding patterns of discrimination. You
can see
From: Katherine Casey
My guess would be that the open to bit is intended to bring in people
who might otherwise feel they're not welcome if they're not
specifically invited,
more than it's intended to dis-invite people who already know they're
always welcome at Wikimedia events.
From: Jeremy
I worried over this earlier in the month, then I got a brief vacation with
my sisters. Now I'm back and I need to make up my mind whether or not I
want to pursue the WikiProject Women proposal that I made back in January.
(Since there are only five days left in the Inspire Campaign.)
Here's a
Hi folks,
Can you help us pick quality articles about women and gender diversity on
Wikipedia and sister projects?
Here are the community suggestions we’ve received so far:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_and_gender_diversity_on_Wikimedia
Well, I hope you will all be delighted to hear I have just pushed out some
of the first articles created as part of Australian Women of Neuroscience
2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_Women_of_Neuroscience_2014
I didn't support the event personally so I am not quite
Kerry,
Thanks for that effort and I totally agree. Dyed-in-the-wool Wikipedians
quickly develop a blind eye for other ways of approaching the topic of an
edit-a-thon and it is the fresh perspective of the attendees that keeps us
up-to-date and challenges the workflows we currently keep in place.
On 3/26/2015 3:26 AM, Jane Darnell wrote:
Kerry,
Thanks for that effort and I totally agree. Dyed-in-the-wool
Wikipedians quickly develop a blind eye for other ways of approaching
the topic of an edit-a-thon and it is the fresh perspective of the
attendees that keeps us up-to-date and
