Re: [Gendergap] International Women's History Month
Hi Caroline! On 1/31/12 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi, This is a great idea :) We can try to have a female-related article in the first page of wikipedias. (I've just asked for fr-wikipedia). Glad you're excited - do you think Wikimedia France will sponsor the event perhaps? (Giveaways, funding) You know what would be cool - if we could also try to coordinate some translations of articles into other languages after or during the event. I've participated in events where the event was in Mexico, and we collaborated on Etherpad to write articles and translate them. It was really cool and a lot of good content came from it! But that's just an idea, for use now or to table for later! You're lucky to have Women's History Month, in France we have Women's Rights Day', often translated in mass medias to Woman's Day' and, as women, we are always told the oh so funny joke don't do the laundry today Leave it for tommorow. -_- Ugh, yes, I've heard jokes like that before regarding doing laundry. So let's turn that into Do my laundry for me, we're editing Wikipedia! :) I do know that Women's History Day is March 8, but the US and the UK decided to make it month long. It is called International Women's Month, so I decided to say let's own it no matter where we are! I'll try to involve feminist organizations in the Wikipedia edition, how writting women's history is a feminist act, etc. Anyone has the experience of dealing with teaching NPOV to polical organizations and if it ends well ? That sounds wonderful. I do know a few people who have worked with NPOV and political groups. [[User:Carolmooredc]] has recently put on an event that worked with advocacy groups and taught them how to edit neutrally. http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/One_day_training The talk page also has her input from the recent event. I have no clue if this would be helpful, but it's a PowerPoint I presented to the Smithsonian Institution staff about NPOV and COI editing: http://www.slideshare.net/SarahStierch/sourcing-original-research-notability-conflict-of-interest-wikipedia-glam I'm pretty sure that [[ User:Trizek]], [[User:Jean-Frédéric]], [[User:Remi_Mathis]] and [[ User:Serein]] have some experience as well. They're pretty active in GLAM and perhaps they have some French resources. Even if we take this off list or develop something on Wiki, let me know how I can help! Thanks Caroline for carrying the French torch! Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] International Women's History Month
On 1/31/12 5:27 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: Hi Caroline! On 1/31/12 3:03 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi, This is a great idea :) We can try to have a female-related article in the first page of wikipedias. (I've just asked for fr-wikipedia). Glad you're excited - do you think Wikimedia France will sponsor the event perhaps? (Giveaways, funding) Wikimedia France has set a micro-grant system for its members. It has rather been little used since it was created (6 requests approved). If you need funding for a cake/drinks/whatever for such an event Caro, please do not hesitate to make such a request. Flo You know what would be cool - if we could also try to coordinate some translations of articles into other languages after or during the event. I've participated in events where the event was in Mexico, and we collaborated on Etherpad to write articles and translate them. It was really cool and a lot of good content came from it! But that's just an idea, for use now or to table for later! You're lucky to have Women's History Month, in France we have Women's Rights Day', often translated in mass medias to Woman's Day' and, as women, we are always told the oh so funny joke don't do the laundry today Leave it for tommorow. -_- Ugh, yes, I've heard jokes like that before regarding doing laundry. So let's turn that into Do my laundry for me, we're editing Wikipedia! :) I do know that Women's History Day is March 8, but the US and the UK decided to make it month long. It is called International Women's Month, so I decided to say let's own it no matter where we are! I'll try to involve feminist organizations in the Wikipedia edition, how writting women's history is a feminist act, etc. Anyone has the experience of dealing with teaching NPOV to polical organizations and if it ends well ? That sounds wonderful. I do know a few people who have worked with NPOV and political groups. [[User:Carolmooredc]] has recently put on an event that worked with advocacy groups and taught them how to edit neutrally. http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/One_day_training The talk page also has her input from the recent event. I have no clue if this would be helpful, but it's a PowerPoint I presented to the Smithsonian Institution staff about NPOV and COI editing: http://www.slideshare.net/SarahStierch/sourcing-original-research-notability-conflict-of-interest-wikipedia-glam I'm pretty sure that [[ User:Trizek]], [[User:Jean-Frédéric]], [[User:Remi_Mathis]] and [[ User:Serein]] have some experience as well. They're pretty active in GLAM and perhaps they have some French resources. Even if we take this off list or develop something on Wiki, let me know how I can help! Thanks Caroline for carrying the French torch! Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ 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] International Women's History Month
Hi everyone, March 8th is International Women's History Day, however, in the US and UK we celebrate Women's History Month for the entire month! I'd like to know if anyone here, or anyone you know, will be hosting a Women's History editing event or event related to Wikimedia projects or women's outreach to celebrate. I'll be doing something in DC (date TBA) about women in science. I'm also hoping something can take place in Chile during GLAM-WIKI Santiago related to Chilean women's history.[2] There are also talks about doing something in NYC and Philadelphia. I'd love to see a number of events take place around the world - it can be as simple as an edit a thon with your friends at your house, or something more complex - working with a GLAM or related organizations. Please let me know if you have something planned, as I'll be developing a page on Wiki (not sure where yet) about it. And if you do not have something planned, please let me know how I can support you or help you plan something, even if I'm from afar! (Including swag, etc.). If you're concerned about funding something, there is always the option of applying for a WMF grant (i.e. if you want to buy a cake or something special!). I'd like to help anyway I can. Looking forward to hearing from my fellow gender gap-ers :) Sarah [1]http://nwhp.org/resourcecenter/whistoryday.php [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Encuentro_GLAM-WIKI_Santiago_2012/en -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/USutm_source=WMdonateutm_medium=sidebarutm_campaign=20110130SB003language=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2Fwiki%2FHome ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
