[Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Keating
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

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Morton
(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 wrote: Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Ryan Kaldari
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

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Sydney Poore
Very pleased to see this come out of that Editathon. :-) Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Just wanted to let you know about some interesting contributions to the Wikimedia article gender balance from a

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Carol Moore DC
One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear for the average reader if/that the imbalance in England was because the males left the country and/or were killed in overseas wars. It's implied but not sufficiently explicit so some people might get confused. Also, the

Re: [Gendergap] Surplus women and World War I

2012-06-20 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This is probably getting off topic, but the main articles on this subject on en.wiki would probably be sex-selective abortion and gendercide. Ryan Kaldari On 6/20/12 2:37 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: One comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit unclear for the average reader