Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-18 Thread carolmooredc
On 3/17/2011 3:28 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, you wrote: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters >> My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier > Good, thank you. > > I think it could be useful to provide some examples of

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-17 Thread Joseph Reagle
On Wednesday, March 16, 2011, you wrote: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters > My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier Good, thank you. I think it could be useful to provide some examples of efforts/projects on this issue that have succeede

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-17 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:43 AM, elisabeth bauer wrote: > I don't think outreach letters, however well formulated, will motivate > many people to try editing Wikipedia. If you know the women you sent > your letter to, why not rather invite them to an edit wikipedia party? > Clear and direct invit

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-17 Thread carolmooredc
On 3/17/2011 6:43 AM, elisabeth bauer wrote: > 2011/3/17 Carol Moore in DC: >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters >> My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier >> version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback. > What do you mean by this?

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-17 Thread elisabeth bauer
2011/3/17 Carol Moore in DC : > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters > My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier > version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback. What do you mean by this? Did you get any feedback at all? >So waiting for

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-16 Thread Steven Walling
Thanks Carol! On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Carol Moore in DC wrote: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters > My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier > version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback. So waiting for > others to com

Re: [Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

2011-03-16 Thread Carol Moore in DC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback. So waiting for others to comment or come up with different approaches before sending out such outreach email