Hi Achal, I am not sure how I came to receive this email, but yes I will look at the site and watch the film and give some feedback and consider participation in a broader discussion.
I will also circulate the project more widely among the concealed expert group. Cheers Fran On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > A group of us have been working on a project to explore the possibility > of oral citations on Wikipedia, and inadvertently (and happily), it > turns out that there is a really interesting gender dimension that came > up during the course of it. > > The central problem we were trying to address was the lack of scholarly > printed material outside the Anglo-European world, and how it affects > knowledge production on Wikipedia. > > In the course of our work (and this may just be a coincidence) many of > the foremost experts on oral culture turn out to be women; for e.g. > Isabel Hofmeyr in South Africa and Urvashi Butalia in India. They both > have a host of interesting points to make in the film, and Urvashi has > one in particular worth nothing (described below, at point 38:35). She > talks - from experience as a feminist publisher over the years, and as > an oral historian, primarily of the stories of women from the partition > of India - about how she finds that, often, the women who know don't > think that what they know is noteworthy. > > I am aware of the research and debates that sparked off the creation of > this list; I think there are several points in this project's trajectory > (many of which are explained in the film) that have some bearing - > tangential and direct - on the 'gender gap'. > > We'd be delighted if you might check out the project page, watch the > film and give us your feedback. > > Cheers, > Achal > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Oral Citations project: People are Knowledge > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:38:20 +0530 > From: Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List < > foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > Dear friends, > > At the beginning of 2011, a group of us began working on a project to > explore alternative methods of citation on Wikipedia. We were motivated > by the lack of published resources in much of the non-Anglo-European > world, and the very real difficulty of citing everyday aspects of lived > reality in India and South Africa. > > We are now at a stage where the project is almost complete, and we'd > like to share our work with the broader movement, especially within > India and South Africa. > > There are three languages we worked within: Malayalam, Hindi and Sepedi. > > The project page documents the process and logistics employed, as well > as the findings and results: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations > > A film made on the project is available here: > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv?withJS=MediaWiki:MwEmbed.js > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv > or > http://vimeo.com/26469276 > > There have been discussions on oral citations for some time now within > the language communities we worked with for the duration of the project. > At this stage, we are really interested in *your* feedback, either on > this list, or on the Discussion section of the project page. > > There are still some things to come, namely: > > - Updates on events, meetings and discussions held around the project > (as they happen) > - Updates on articles created in Malayalam, Hindi and Sepedi as a result > of the project (as they happen) > - English transcripts of the interviews and a full English subtitle track > for further translation (we could use some help here). > > We would be very grateful to hear your feedback, and begin a broader > discussion. > > Best wishes, > Achal > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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