With pleasure, Sven :) Thanks for contributing, as always!! maia
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]>wrote: > Please link me to the Wikipedia page for the event so that I can > participate remotely. I am 2 for 2 on producing GA class articles from Ada > Lovelace Day editathons, and do not intend on letting a little thing like > the full length of the eastern seaboard break my streak. > > -Sven > On Oct 10, 2013 10:28 PM, "Maia Weinstock" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> Great to see those of you at the New England Wikimedians meeting on >> Saturday; I plan on following up soon with some of the ideas we tossed >> around. >> >> In the meantime, the Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon that I've been >> organizing with my friend, biology professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, is set >> to take place on the Brown University campus in Providence, RI this >> Tuesday, Oct 15, from 3-8:30pm: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Edit-a-thon_2013_-_Brown >> >> In case you missed some of the press we've drummed up, check it out! >> >> From Brown <https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/10/lovelace>; from The >> Chronicle of Higher >> Ed<http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wiki-edit-a-thon-at-brown-u-will-add-entries-for-women-in-science/47235>; >> from The >> Atlantic<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/to-fix-wikipedia-s-gender-imbalance-a-big-editing-party/280470/>; >> from The Mary Sue <http://www.themarysue.com/ada-lovelace-wikipedia/> >> >> I'm very pleased to have connected this week with Wikimedian Michael >> Umbricht, who is the curator at Brown's historic Ladd Observatory. Mike >> will be speaking at the edit-a-thon about the Ladd's recent GLAM project, >> plus some women-in-astronomy trivia. Later in the evening, Anne will >> discuss the continuing gender imbalance in the STEM fields as well as her >> take on "storming" Wikipedia as a way to improve representation of women in >> the annals of science history. >> >> I know it's a bit of a trek for those in the Boston area, but if any of >> you are interested, we'd love to have you join us, even for a short while. >> Of course, remote contributions are also very much welcome if you can't >> make it to Providence on Tuesday. For anyone I don't see in person, I hope >> to catch up with you at the Mass. History Wiki edit-a-thon at the >> Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe on the 23rd! >> >> best, >> maia >> >> >> maiaw.com | 917-553-6158 | @20tauri | user:Girona7 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-boston mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston >> >>
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