Re: [Gendergap] In case you missed the @WeAreWikipedia Twitter
Hi, I agree with Sarah. Both the community, chapters and the @WeAreWikipedia account needs more diversity. I'm a white, West European, middle aged(?) male, working at a chapter (Wikimedia Sweden) and I'm running @WeAreWikipedia for the second time now. As I got asked to apply last weekend I doubt there is a huge crowd waiting to curate, so I recommend you to sign up, http://wearewikipedia.wordpress.com/take-part/. Also recommending you to read the Storify Roberta Wedge put together, both the one about her week as curator ( https://storify.com/robertawedge/my-week-on-wearewikipedia) and the one with our (Wikimedia Sweden) blog with X-mas greetings and stupid ads ( https://storify.com/robertawedge/a-few-thoughts-on-gendergap-and-wikiwomen-etc ). (Don't be fooled by my face next to her tweets, it's a Storify embedding twitter issue. Next week someone else (you?) will be there.) Best regards /axel Den 23 dec 2014 21:14 skrev Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com: ...Roberta from the UK made a storify of some selected moments, including my tenure as the account writer.. https://storify.com/robertawedge/a-few-thoughts-on-gendergap-and-wikiwomen-etc She makes great points about the lack of diversity often seen at chapters. It seems to be the same people who run the WeAreWikipedia account, so they need some fresh people, please consider participating yourself. It was REALLY great experience for me.. Sign up here: http://wearewikipedia.wordpress.com/take-part/ -- Sarah Stierch - www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Seeing diversity as well as reading about it ...
I doubled the Videos of Women category by adding a couple of videos I made a couple of years ago while making candles. Yay me! (If you have articles about candle making in your languages, make use of them. Only used in swedish article so far...) /axel Axel PetterssonProjektledare GLAM/OutreachWikimedia Sverige jobb/work +46 (0)733 96 55 65 axel.petters...@wikimedia.se ojobb/non work +46 (0)730 59 58 13 haxp...@hotmail.com Twitter: @Haxpett Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap! From: danc...@frontiernet.net To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:50:38 -0400 Subject: [Gendergap] Seeing diversity as well as reading about it ... When we’ve focused on making article content more gender-inclusive here, we’ve usually considered only the text. But a recent edit of mine reminded me that that’s not the only place we can do this. A month or so ago, on a short train trip to a city near us, my son (at my suggestion) took a video of the conductor of what was to be our train home lining the switch (point to those of you English speakers outside of North America) to bring the train onto the track next to the platform for boarding. He and I have been making videos for Wikipedia since Wikimania (when I realized that we could do it, and it occurred to me for other reasons that this might be another way to make the encyclopedia more welcoming to female readers and editors) and I had noticed that [[railroad switch]] had neither photo nor video of someone actually making the adjustment, an operation that takes place thousands of times a day on railroads all over the planet and is fundamental to rail transport (yes, there was a video of some tracks in Hong Kong being switched, but it was so short and subtle as to be nearly useless). It took me a while to get around to editing the video and convert it to .ogv format, then upload it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NJ_Transit_conductor_lines_a_switch_in_Port_Jervis,_NY.ogv). Only after I did, and then added it to the article, did I pleasantly realize that it showed a young African-American woman (so score that double for diversity of representation) doing something not always associated with women (although, of course, as we all know, there are many women who work as passenger rail conductors). Of course, when I look at the “Videos of women” category on Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_of_women) and see both how underpopulated it is and how it’s subdivided, I remember that we still have a lot of work to do. Daniel Case ___ 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] Ada Lovelace in Sweden
Hi all,Beeing ambushed by an article in one of tha biggest papers in Sweden talking about the Brittish Ada edit-a-thon (http://www.dn.se/nyheter/brittiskt-initiativ-ska-ge-fler-kvinnor-pa-wikipedia?a=) and that nothing would be done in Sweden I finally got around to sort things out and finalize our event. A new article promotes our edit-a-thon in a nice way (http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/svenska-wikipeida-skapar-dag-for-kvinnoartiklar) and so far we have four participants for in place and a bunch for the online activities. Feel free to add articles to write or expand under Artiklar att jobba med on http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skrivstuga/Ada_Lovelace_2012 and sign up for tickets at http://adaskrivstuga2012.eventbrite.com/, På plats if you intend to come to Stockholm to participate and online if you want to help out from other places. /axel Axel PetterssonProjektledare GLAM/OutreachWikimedia Sverige jobb/work +46 (0)733 96 55 65 axel.petters...@wikimedia.se ojobb/non work +46 (0)730 59 58 13 haxp...@hotmail.com Twitter: @Haxpett Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap! ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Workshop for Sveriges Kvinnolobby
Hi, Yesterday I and user:Boberger hosted a workshop for Sveriges Kvinnolobby[1]. Learning about the gendergap they started a network called Wikifem to narrow the gap and to improve and create articles about women and the womens movement. Focus from our side was both on how to edit and write an article, but also on notability, discussions, NPOV and understanding the community. Future plans include edit-a-thons and getting some of the members skilled enough to host their own workshops. /axel, [[User:Haxpett]] [1] http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_Kvinnolobby Axel Pettersson tele +46 (0)8 641 81 79 mobil +46 (0)730 59 58 13 haxp...@hotmail.com pr...@wikimedia.se Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap! ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
