> >From: Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> >To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects ><gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 10:47:23 PM >Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Emails to friends, lists to encourage participation > > >On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > >People need to be sent to work on their passions with their personal >strengths, >not just told in a blanket fashion to write some articles. >> >>Birgitte SB >This all sounds like a pretty sound approach to me. I like it. > > >Another worthwhile thing, if somebody is really entertaining the idea of >taking >on this work, would be to contact the Wikipedia Ambassadors group, which has >formed in support of the Public Policy Initiative. This includes both >experienced Wikipedians, and college students and librarians were initially >new >to Wikipedia, but put some effort into getting to know it in order to support >students working on articles. The best place to contact them is probably >through >the talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors > > >Oh, and one other thing -- from what little evidence I have, Birgitte, I'd say >you're a pretty good writer :) > > >-Pete >Only with conversational writing. I don't know why there is a difference but >there really is. It is a hard thing about Wikipedia that to really succeed at >creating articles, you have to master both kinds of writing. One kind for the >articles, and the other for the talk pages. > Birgitte SB Birgitte SB
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