Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-09 Thread Emily Monroe
I am a page patroller; whether it's recent change, new page, or random page patrolling, I've done it. For now, I am random page patrolling, with the occasional Google search for things I'm interested in, flitting from page to page, copyediting, wikifying, tagging/untagging, and updating/adding Wiki

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-09 Thread Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia
Hi, gang. I've added an article about feminist poet Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, who has been awarded the title People's Poet of Uzbekistan. Then I linked from the article to a translation of her feminist poem "Sacred Woman." Well, OK, I translated it,

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-08 Thread Christine Meyer
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > > On 6/8/12 10:17 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: > > I like this thread but have hesitated contributing to it because I'm a little > worried that you'll all laugh at me... ;) > > > Christine! I'm so glad you shared this. I know you really enjoy

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: > I like this thread but have hesitated contributing to it because I'm a > little worried that you'll all laugh at me... ;) > > Actually, that's a little true.  These days, I've been working on [[The > Wiggles]].  You may be asking, if you've

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-08 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 6/8/12 10:17 AM, Christine Meyer wrote: I like this thread but have hesitated contributing to it because I'm a little worried that you'll all laugh at me... ;) Christine! I'm so glad you shared this. I know you really enjoy writing children-based subject matter and you inspired me to rewrit

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-08 Thread Christine Meyer
I like this thread but have hesitated contributing to it because I'm a little worried that you'll all laugh at me... ;) Actually, that's a little true. These days, I've been working on [[The Wiggles]]. You may be asking, if you've even heard of them, "What in the world does a children's music gr

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-07 Thread Gillian White
This is a great thread and it's wonderful to see the wide range of contributions people have been making. For me, it's a busy time regarding real-life work but when I can, I have been working on the biography of one of my favourite late nineteenth century women, about whom, I was surprised to disc

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I agree with Anne/Risker. I've gone ahead and thrown my hat in the ring for the Grants Advisory Committee. My background includes expertise with both applying for and approving grants. In my work with nonprofit corporations, I have been responsible for assessing programmatic needs; researching an

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Carol Moore DC
One thing people can do is get on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Article_alerts List for articles being deleted, RfC'd etc. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Joseph Reagle
On 06/05/2012 09:53 AM, Risker wrote: place where we can continue to illustrate the contributions of women to many fields would be to include their peer-reviewed scholarly works as references in our articles. I am not saying that this should be done in That could also be an interesting researc

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread koltzenburg
thank you, Risker/Anne, how interesting! ___a. Grants Advisory Committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates I would like to suggest we more or less immediately start a little group who advise female socialised people on how to fill in the application so it "works

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-06-05 Thread Risker
A couple of things come to my mind with respect to this thread. The first is that there is a lot of work that can be done "behind the scenes" to encourage the voice of women within the WMF community. I recently advocated for a woman to be included in the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Gro

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-05-31 Thread Sarah Stierch
Awesome work Laura. We need to create a "Laura Hale Awesome Woman in Sports" award, as you surely must be the most prolific in that arena ever on Wikipedia in any language! Thanks for all you're doing to improve women's sports representation on Wikipedia - even the challenging content! -Sara

Re: [Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-05-31 Thread Laura Hale
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > I thought it'd be refreshing to have a positive thread and something > less-...porny, if you will :) > > *What have you been working on? In any language, on any sister project of > Wikimedia? Online and offline? What are you doing to be proa

[Gendergap] So what have you been working on lately article wise as a woman or about women?

2012-05-31 Thread Sarah Stierch
I thought it'd be refreshing to have a positive thread and something less-...porny, if you will :) *What have /you/ been working on? In any language, on any sister project of Wikimedia? Online and offline? What are you doing to be proactive or contributing as a volunteer, fellow, staff member,