[Gendergap] best DYK ever for april fools

[Sarah Stierch]

pretty rare when you can get a laugh out of bell hooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

well done wikipedia!!!

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Re: [Gendergap] [Blog]: [Huffington Post U.K] : An interview with Emily Temple-Wood

[Sarah Stierch]

Nice work Netha and Emily!

-Sarah


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Netha Hussain wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
>   Here is a blog post interviewing Emily Temple-Wood, the co-founder of 
> Wikiproject:
> Women 
> Scientists.
> Congratulations, Emily!
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?just_reloaded=1
>
> - Netha
>
>
> Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily
> Temple-Wood
> Posted: 01/04/2014 
> 14:28
>  Follow
> Wikipedia , United 
> States
> , Editing , Gender 
> Gaps
> , Interview , Systemic
> Bias , 
> Woman
> , UK Tech News 
>
>   *GET UK TECH NEWSLETTERS:*
> SUBSCRIBE
>
> "I love to collect information, and I love that I get to share that
> information with the world," says Emily Temple-Wood, a veteran editor on
> English Wikipedia. Emily, who likes reading encyclopedias from
> cover-to-cover, finds writing on Wikipedia a transition from being a
> consumer to a creator of knowledge.
>
> Her first attempt at writing on Wikipedia was in 2005, when she was 10
> years old. She wrote a page about her little sister saying that she was a
> "stupid butthead", which got removed from Wikipedia instantly. As she grew
> older, she knew that she could do more productive things on Wikipedia.
>
> In 2007, when Emily Temple-Wood created an account on Wikipedia, she was
> just 12 years old. She started off by categorizing and cleaning up existing
> wikipedia articles. Eventually, she found it and useful to contribute
> knowledge to Wikipedia. Her first interest was endangered languages. She
> created several articles related to endangered languages and became
> dedicated to Wikipedia.
>
> Emily, now 19, has written over 200 articles on Wikipedia. Lately, she has
> been writing about rare genetic diseases, Islamic history and mythology.
> Her pet project is Wikiproject: Women 
> scientists,
> an initiative to create and expand articles about women scientists.
> "WikiProject Women Scientists is growing into a nice space for contributing
> to this less-covered area and we are gaining some active participants, so
> that is great! I'm so glad to be a part of something that is making a real
> difference on Wikipedia," she says. She is also an administrator on
> Wikipedia, a trusted editor who has been granted the technical ability to
> perform special actions on English Wikipedia.
>
> [image: 
> 2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG]
>
> Emily is an undergraduate student at the Loyola University in Chicago,
> majoring in molecular biology with additional two minors : Arabic and
> Islamic world studies. She aspires to go to graduate school and get an MD/
> PhD in medicine to fulfil her dream of becoming research physician. She has
> basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean and French and wants to be a fluent
> speaker of these three languages someday. She is undergoing training as an
> emergency medical technician along with her undergraduate studies. Because
> of the many real-life commitments, Emily is not being able to spend as much
> time for writing articles as she wants.
>
> "First of all, I schedule time to edit, either with workshops or with
> friends. Editing with friends makes it a lot easier to make the time for
> it. I also edit as I read. Like many of us, I use Wikipedia every day to
> look up facts and whenever I see something that needs to be fixed, I do it.
> Treating my editing as a social endeavor has been really helpful and
> definitely motivates me to contribute more, and I think that's my message
> to fellow women. Have fun together while editing - enjoy food and drink and
> socialize! Some people take Wikipedia too seriously and make it an
> anti-social space a lot of the time, so you can counter that by enjoying
> wiki-socialization in real life and being serious online.", says Emily when
> asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of
> real-life and online volunteering.
>
> She is also a Individual Engagement 
> Grantee of
> the Wikimedia Foundation , the
> not-for-profit

[Gendergap] [Blog]: [Huffington Post U.K] : An interview with Emily Temple-Wood

[Netha Hussain]

Dear all,

  Here is a blog post interviewing Emily Temple-Wood, the co-founder
of Wikiproject:
Women 
Scientists.
Congratulations, Emily!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-on-wikipedia--an-interview-with-emily-temple-wood_b_5064947.html?just_reloaded=1

- Netha


Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily
Temple-Wood
Posted: 01/04/2014
14:28
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Wikipedia , United
States
, Editing , Gender
Gaps
, Interview ,
Systemic Bias
, Woman , UK Tech
News

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"I love to collect information, and I love that I get to share that
information with the world," says Emily Temple-Wood, a veteran editor on
English Wikipedia. Emily, who likes reading encyclopedias from
cover-to-cover, finds writing on Wikipedia a transition from being a
consumer to a creator of knowledge.

Her first attempt at writing on Wikipedia was in 2005, when she was 10
years old. She wrote a page about her little sister saying that she was a
"stupid butthead", which got removed from Wikipedia instantly. As she grew
older, she knew that she could do more productive things on Wikipedia.

In 2007, when Emily Temple-Wood created an account on Wikipedia, she was
just 12 years old. She started off by categorizing and cleaning up existing
wikipedia articles. Eventually, she found it and useful to contribute
knowledge to Wikipedia. Her first interest was endangered languages. She
created several articles related to endangered languages and became
dedicated to Wikipedia.

Emily, now 19, has written over 200 articles on Wikipedia. Lately, she has
been writing about rare genetic diseases, Islamic history and mythology.
Her pet project is Wikiproject: Women
scientists,
an initiative to create and expand articles about women scientists.
"WikiProject Women Scientists is growing into a nice space for contributing
to this less-covered area and we are gaining some active participants, so
that is great! I'm so glad to be a part of something that is making a real
difference on Wikipedia," she says. She is also an administrator on
Wikipedia, a trusted editor who has been granted the technical ability to
perform special actions on English Wikipedia.

[image: 
2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG]

Emily is an undergraduate student at the Loyola University in Chicago,
majoring in molecular biology with additional two minors : Arabic and
Islamic world studies. She aspires to go to graduate school and get an MD/
PhD in medicine to fulfil her dream of becoming research physician. She has
basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean and French and wants to be a fluent
speaker of these three languages someday. She is undergoing training as an
emergency medical technician along with her undergraduate studies. Because
of the many real-life commitments, Emily is not being able to spend as much
time for writing articles as she wants.

"First of all, I schedule time to edit, either with workshops or with
friends. Editing with friends makes it a lot easier to make the time for
it. I also edit as I read. Like many of us, I use Wikipedia every day to
look up facts and whenever I see something that needs to be fixed, I do it.
Treating my editing as a social endeavor has been really helpful and
definitely motivates me to contribute more, and I think that's my message
to fellow women. Have fun together while editing - enjoy food and drink and
socialize! Some people take Wikipedia too seriously and make it an
anti-social space a lot of the time, so you can counter that by enjoying
wiki-socialization in real life and being serious online.", says Emily when
asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of
real-life and online volunteering.

She is also a Individual Engagement
Grantee of
the Wikimedia Foundation , the
not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia. In her role as a grantee,
she is aiming to create a new model for bringing women into the Wikimedia
movement and creating more content to fill the coverage gap with topics
related to women, especially biographies of women. She is trying