Thank you all! I appreciate the kind words.
On Jun 10, 2014 3:14 PM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to add my kudos! Your work on Maya Angelou articles is nothing
short of inspiring. Thank you!
-Emily
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com
wrote:
I truly appreciate your work on this and related articles. They stand out
as an example of the high quality of work that Wikipedians can produce.
Warm regards,
Sydney
On Jun 9, 2014 1:16 AM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Yes, I'm responsible for the Angelou article. I must say, when I saw
the view counts in the Signpost, I was overwhelmed and honored that for my
part in bringing Dr. Angelou's bio article, as well as all seven of her
autobiographies, the list of her works, and articles about her poetry and
themes in her autobiographies, all to FA status. I also feel proud that
the English WP honored this great artist with high-quality articles when
the world most needed them.
Like with the other article you mentioned, the Angelou articles all had
Adedewit's influence. Early in my WP editing career, way back in 2007, she
mentored me. She (along with User:Scartol) basically led me by the hand
through the article development process as we worked on [[I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings]], Angelou's first autobiography. She taught me how to do
research, gather sources, write scholarly, and find appropriate images. I
remember going to her talk page at one point, and freaking out because I
felt overwhelmed by the fact that here I was, a middle-aged white woman
from the West Coast, trying to write about racism and childhood rape. She
was very calm with me and told me, Well, you took this on and now you need
to finish it. Which eventually I did. We suffered a terrible loss this
year.
I'm thankful for being exposed to the life and writings of Dr. Angelou,
something I wouldn't have done if it weren't for WP. Millions of people
looked at something that I basically wrote, and that's incredible to me.
It makes all the gender gap garbage we go through worth it.
Christine/Figureskatingfan.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Yana Welinder ywelin...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi Risker,
That is awesome! I was really pleased to see that too. Thanks to
everyone who worked on the two articles!
On a somewhat related note, I started a twitter account this week (as a
minor side project) to tweet about notable women on their birthdays with
their Wikipedia articles to raise awareness:
https://twitter.com/sis_ninja. If anyone on this list have particular
Wikipedia articles that you would like to be included, please shoot me an
email.
Best,
Yana
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking at the Signpost today, I was really pleased and pleasantly
surprised to discover that the top two most-viewed articles this past week
were biographical articles about women. Not only that, they were both
featured articles, so our reading public got a really good, informative
article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-06-04/Traffic_report
A thank you to Christine for the Maya Angelou article, and to Sage
Ross (with support from Awadewit) for the Rachel Carson article.
Risker/Anne
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
--
Christine
Christine W. Meyer
christinewme...@gmail.com
208/310-1549
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
___
Gendergap mailing list
Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
