An inspiring report; thank you. +Sam On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thought I would pop a note here to let people on the list that I was > quite impressed with the Art+Feminism get-together held yesterday (March 8) > here in Toronto, at the Art Gallery of Ontario. > > As you can see by the page,[1] there were over 70 people in attendance > (about 75% of whom were women). The quality of the resources was > excellent, and the AGO staff and volunteers were extremely helplful in > locating those resources and bringing them to the editors to build the > articles. I attended primarily as an editor myself, but there was a > special thrill in helping a first-time editor tidy up a few things on the > page in her sandbox and then showing her how to move the article to > mainspace. > > I was also really impressed with the ability of the attendees to quickly > grasp the Wikipedia concept, linking to references, following formatting > suggestions, and "speaking" in our patented Wikipedia voice. I was also > fascinated to see how so many of the editors were able to reflect the > feminist attributes of their article subjects in so many cases (e.g., > "first woman to...",). I came away with the impression that many had > actually caught the "editing bug", and I have some hope that there will be > some editor retention out of this one. > > Much to my surprise, I realised that this was the largest Wiki*edia event > I had attended outside of Wikimania. It bodes well for both the Canadian > editing community, and for the narrowing of the gender gap. > > Risker/Anne > > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/ArtAndFeminism_2015 > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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