Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

2015-01-03 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
My draft is now up at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Regular_editathons_in_Sweden_about_women_and_literature Anyone who wants to help with grammar and other language stuff (English is my second language after all), feel free. Your help is appreciated. Best wishes,

Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

2015-01-03 Thread Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Big smile on my face... I love the idea of regular editathons. I've never been to a knitting/quilting circle but I imagine a group of women editing Wikipedia would have a similar look and feel. Piggy-backing on the WMDC salons might be a way forward as facilitating an editathon requires quite a

[Gendergap] signpost gender-driven talk page conflicts free as in sexist

2015-01-03 Thread son of James Warren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-31/Recent_research [image: Free as in sexist? Free culture and the gender gap by Joseph Reagle] -- Free as in sexist? fee culture and the gender gap

[Gendergap] Makers.com

2015-01-03 Thread Risker
For completely un-Wikipedia related reasons, I happened to stumble upon a website called makers.com - which appears to be a fairly large repository of the video stories of women who are experiencing successes, ranging from the extremely well known (e.g., Hilary Rodham Clinton) to Barbara Burns, a

Re: [Gendergap] signpost gender-driven talk page conflicts free as in sexist

2015-01-03 Thread Marie Earley
Thanks for that. A few other things that is worth noting. * There is an excellent journal article by Joanne Baker, The ideology of choice. Overstating progress and hiding injustice in the lives of young women: Findings from a study in North Queensland, Australia