Re: [Gendergap] Request for advice about editathons

2015-11-06 Thread J Hayes
i agree the trend is low undergraduate attendance if not part of grade some campus marketing (fliers, partnership with groups seems in order) but we don't have a handle on it. major divide between readers and editors seems hard to close. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Pine W

[Gendergap] Request for advice about editathons

2015-11-06 Thread Pine W
Hi GG mailing list and Maria from WMF Eval, Cascadia Wikimedians ran a series of editathons at the University of Washington with themes like "Women and astronomy" and "Women and Health Sciences". We did some communications through the University's Facebook pages and mailing lists. While we had

Re: [Gendergap] Request for advice about editathons

2015-11-06 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Good question. In our experience from the weekly editathons in Gothenburg (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudpersoner_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia) there are a few things we've learned: * even though people are interested, it may take a while before they actually

[Gendergap] This weekend: Edit-a-thon under CPH:DOX

2015-11-06 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
Hi all! Tomorrow there will be a feminist edit-a-thon as part of the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. It is heavily inspired by the edit-a-thon that was arranged on March 8-9, and we expect to have a blast. Links: http://cphdox.dk/program/film/?id=3330

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

2015-11-06 Thread Marie Earley
As much as I like to see an event like this happening, and the Women in Science event, I'm left wondering why there are no similar events for Women in Politics or Economics + Feminism. Marie Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:47:08 -0500 From: i...@art.plusfeminism.org To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Gendergap] Call for Participation: 2016 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

2015-11-06 Thread Risker
Is that you I see volunteering to organize one, Marie? :-) I suspect that is the reason, to be honest - nobody specifically taking the bull by the horns. It requires interest in the subject, and a willingness and ability to organize the events. Economics is not a particularly popular subject