Sarah, I'm glad to see you being more active, and I appreciate all the work you have done and your recent work on Wikidata.
I hope the media viewer and other wiki-snafus don't get you down! Jane On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been feeling inspired (!!!) and have started re-maintaining the > WikiWomen's Collaborative Twitter and Facebook. Despite my excessive > bitterness, hahaha, I'm really missing the camaraderie and work that I was > doing to engage a more diverse audience in participating in the free > knowledge movement. > > Feel free to e-mail me off list if there are events, blog posts, press > coverage, or "calls to action" you'd like me to post. I'll post in any > language as long as there is also an English translation. If you already > are a maintainer of either the page or Twitter, feel free to post. > > On Facebook we now have over 1,000 likes, and on Twitter we have 1,189 > followers. You can find the two accounts here: > > https://twitter.com/wikiwomen > > https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative > > Like and follow us! > > ---- > > On a personal note, ever since Adrianne and Cindamuse died and I earned my > "outsider within a group of outsiders" status in January I haven't had the > motivation to contribute to the two areas of work that I deeply care about > in this "world" of free knowledge - women's engagement and GLAM. I'm trying > to change that in myself, and not letting the men who tore me down get me > down (or the mistakes that I have made in the past). > > For the past few months I've been contributing to WikiVoyage and Wikidata > and I changed my username (back to my old username). No one notices me.. > it's quiet. > > I'm even thinking about putting my feelers out for public speaking and > workshops again, but, I might be a bad apple no one wants to hear from > anymore :) As long as funding is available, I am very open minded to > opportunities. If you hear of anything, or know of anyone looking to hear > someone speak about lessons learned, the experiences had, evaluation > practices, grantwriting, how revolution can and continues to take place in > this community, or you just want a kick ass facilitator for your > edit-a-thon let me know... > > <3 > > Thanks everyone, I appreciate it and the work you are all doing to change > the world. > > Sarah > > -- > > www.sarahstierch.com > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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