Nice work! Looking forward to seeing it on the Main Page.
Ryan Kaldari
On 6/20/12 12:48 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
(just to note; it's in my userspace - I got the "singled out" book the
other day, and hopefully we can finish the article in the next day or so)
Tom
On 20 June 2012 20:22, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
<mailto:chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions
to the Wikimedia article gender balance from a slightly unexpected
source.
On Saturday, Wikimedia UK had a World War I-themed Editathon[1],
where we essentially put a lot of Wikimedians and a group of
academics in a room and asked them to help improve coverage of
World War I.
The gender balance was markedly better amongst the academics we'd
invited (4 men, 3 women) than among the Wikimedians (20 men, no
women at all) - which prompted quite a lot of debate about gender
balance among Wikimedia volunteers (not very good) and also about
the gender balance of Wikipedia's coverage of the topic (also,
not very good!). It might also be that we'd taken a lot of steps
to promote the event amongst the English Wikipedia's large and
active military history community (which probably has worse than
average gender balance, at a guess).
I'm pleased to say that one of the outcomes from the event is an
article, currently in sandbox but well worthy of a DYK nom when in
due course, on the topic of "Surplus women" - a demographic
imbalance that existed (or was perceived) in Western Europe in the
industrial era, accentuated by the mass slaughter of World War I,
and hitherto completely absent from Wikipedia. You can have a look
at it here :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ErrantX/Sandbox/Surplus_women
Many thanks,
Chris
Wikimedia UK
[1] http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon
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