[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Wiki Loves Monuments... 2012!

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone - this is the announcement for WIki Loves Monuments. The US 
will be participating (in some capacity) for the 2012 event, and we're 
of course looking for participants around the world. And since this is 
gender gap - perhaps you know some cool women's groups, or yourself - 
who would like to step up and help lead a group or your 
country/state/chapter into the WLM event.


See below! It's an awesome experience - I participated (Despite living 
in the US) in the Belgian WLM, and it was really awesome.


-Sarah



 Original Message 
Subject: 	[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Wiki Loves 
Monuments... 2012!

Date:   Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:56:12 +0100
From:   Maarten Dammers 
Reply-To: 	Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition 

To: 	Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition 





FYI, we send out the following email to several lists. Please spread the 
word :-)


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Hello everyone,

As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves 
Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate 
the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to 
share some of the results of our meeting with you.


The first and most important information is:
* There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is 
interest, we are going global!


We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be 
people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments 
nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics.


Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, 
respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the 
general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and 
buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised 
seperately in every participating country by the local people who know 
how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are 
nominated for an international contest.


In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos 
of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was 
possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those 
countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or 
another. The winning pictures have been published on 
 and on Wikimedia Commons: 
.


Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage 
of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic 
opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation 
of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven 
contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons 
(<_http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month_>); we 
have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups & 
chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations 
in several countries.


Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in 
your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at 
. 
We have put together some information there for you -- and much more 
will follow soon.


We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is 
welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki 
Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers 
of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for 
communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up 
for the list at 
.


So, please speak up if you're interested!

Best regards,
Lodewijk, Maarten & Tomasz (on behalf of so many others)

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[Gendergap] Cause and effect research - gender and diversity in Wikipedia

[Karen Sue Rolph]

Dear Colleagues,

I have just completed (teaching) a (California - Bay Area) college Wikipedia 
'workshop' class, intended to: 1) encourage women and more culturally diverse 
communities to engage with Wikipedia, and 2) to help us all better understand 
participation disparity among females and more culturally diverse groups.  

Data are qualitative and quantitative, taken from direct feedback and 
participation.  I will also make use of formal student evaluations.  While 
students faced challenges in deletions and process, I believe they came away 
wiser, and most of us agree overseeing Wikipedians accomplish the goal aimed at 
high quality contributing.  We all gradually learn how that is defined, it is 
iterative, and holds promise.  The Ambassador Program, generally, works well 
too.

I welcome correspondence on relevant topics,

Karen Sue Rolph, PhD
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[Gendergap] A nice mix - our edit-a-thon sure shook up the gender gap!

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi folks,

I'm going to be a little selfish here, so pardon me. But, yesterday I 
coordinated a "fine art" themed edit-a-thon at our local downtown 
library, here in Washington, DC, followed by a meet-up at a local pub. 
I'm proud to say we had 13 people at the edit-a-thon, and six were 
women. The meetup? We had 16 people and 9 were women!! These numbers 
might seem small compared to larger events, but, to have an event like 
this, and have such a healthy mix, made me so happy.

User:Aude, the President of Wikimedia DC joked "I remember when it'd be 
just me and Mindspillage, as the only women," and we gushed about having 
such a healthy group of "all genders" at the event. I noticed, when 
saying goodbye to people, that I got a bit emotional - not only did we 
have a gender-mixed Wiki-event, but, we also actually wrote new articles 
and expanded articles - and anyone who attends an edit-a-thon knows - 
it's often chaos and just socializing, not actual editing.

You can see our outcomes here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_26/To-do_list#OUTCOMES

Which includes new articles or expanded articles about seven women 
artists!!!

Obviously, I'm on a bit of a high from this, as I love outreach and 
coordinating things like this; I do believe the power of invitation 
helped with the success of this event. I don't use bots for invitations, 
and I do my best to individually reach out to people "I hope you'll be 
there." I genuinely do believe that invitation is one of the strongest 
keys in making sure that events, participation, and programs succeed in 
regards to closing the gender gap.

Thanks for letting me gush =) One event, for me, leads to one more woman 
feeling inspired to continue participating. It also shows that offline 
events make for such a rewarding experience - we get to come together, 
put our differences aside, and work together for the common cause of 
providing free knowledge to the world. One woman who came had never 
written a new article - and this was her first time - and she really was 
proud. That just made me so happy.

I also got to meet Carol Moore, which was rather epic, I must say. :)

-Sarah


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[Gendergap] Techies You Decide! You're either a feminist or a misogynist - by Trevor Owens

[Sarah Stierch]

Trevor Owens, a colleague of mine in the DC GLAM world has written a 
nice and honest blog about open source and feminism. It talks about the 
fear women have of representing themselves or writing like "themselves" 
online, the experiences of Skud her ideas about harassment, and Trevor 
stating why he is a feminist.

http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you’re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/

Nice to see a man in tech express himself like this - it's a rare thing 
to see, especially in the tech field.

Sarah


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Re: [Gendergap] Techies You Decide! You're either a feminist or a misogynist - by Trevor Owens

[Jeremy Baron]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 13:09, Sarah Stierch  wrote:
> http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you’re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/

evil, evil smart quotes.

http://www.trevorowens.org/2011/12/techies-you-decide-you%E2%80%99re-either-a-feminist-or-a-misogynist/

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[Gendergap] "Gender Namespaces" bug

[Sarah Stierch]

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/12/addressing-women-properly.html

Gerard reports that the bug "is done."

-Sarah
[[User:SarahStierch]]
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