Re: [Gendergap] Sharing an article

[Sarah Stierch]

Yeah...awesome thread.

Working on articles by friends and colleagues of mine is one of my favorite
activities when it comes to Wikipedia, so it's nice to be able to contribute
to improve one another's articles.

I recently nominated my beloved Louise Nevelson for good article. She's one
of the most important figures in American art history, and is considered a
forerunner of the feminist art movement. She identified as an artist, not a
female artist. She was also sexually very free spirited, a fashion icon, and
quite the characterand of course one hell of an artist.  One of my
favorite parts of the article is that when Alice Neel asked Nevelson why she
dressed so amazingly, Nevelson replied "fucking dear..fucking." <3 sexually
empowered people!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevelson

Any, yeah, she's GA, so if you feel like keeping an eye on her with me when
the review starts, I'd appreciate it.

I also recently expanded a random roller derby article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Roller_Warriors

I noticed I have actually rewritten all of these articles, not actually
written them (I've written plenty, whatever!)...  I rewrote the Woman's
Building article, which was originally started by a woman who participated
in it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Building  (it needed work).

woo!

Sarah

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Re: [Gendergap] Sharing an article

[Sydney Poore]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> All,
>
> I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and
> thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
>
> Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West,
> but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher
> Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist:
>
> "But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter
> how graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the
> idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of
> the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives
> for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.],
> "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 
> 1
> ).
>
>
> Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner
> started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along
> the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker
> is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers
> around memory, trauma, survival and recovery:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker
>
> I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to
> occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to
> gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list,
> please share your links too!
>
> -Pete
>

Pete, this is a great idea! I've enjoyed reading the articles that people
have shared.

I have a few favorites but one that stands out is a biography of a living
person that I wrote. I rarely create BLPs because of the concerns that I
have with them being filled with unsourced negative content.

But JoAnn H. Morgan stood out as a glaring omission that I couldn't pass on.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnn_H._Morgan

Morgan was the first female engineer at Kennedy Space Center when she went
to work there in 1963, and she remained the only one for a long time. Back
in the 60's she helped design the rocket launch computer systems for the
initial NASA flight programs. For advancement she decided to go into
management instead of flight, and later she was the first woman to serve as
a senior executive at Kennedy Space Center.

There is loads more information about her in books, and more good images
since she worked for the US government,  so her article could be expanded
more.
Katherine Bement Davis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Bement_Davisor
Ellen_Hardin_Walworth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hardin_Walworthare
more typical of the people who I write about.
I enjoy writing about women who were trailblazers during the late 19th or
early 20th century. Many of them were well known during their time but fell
out of common knowledge because they did have positions in society that were
recorded in textbooks.
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
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Re: [Gendergap] Sharing an article

[phoebe ayers]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:
> All,
> I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and
> thought I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
> Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West,
> but she also ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher
> Hubert Howe Bancroft, without attribution. She was a feminist:
>
> "But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how
> graceful or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the
> idea of work for their less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of
> the honestly struggling of their sex, reduce the wages that woman receives
> for her work, and perpetuate their own moral enslavement" ([Dorothy D.],
> "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning Call, April 25, 1875, 1).
>
> Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner
> started the article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along
> the way; I think it's a pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker
> is an award-winning, contemporary English novelist, whose work centers
> around memory, trauma, survival and recovery:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker
> I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to
> occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to
> gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list,
> please share your links too!
> -Pete

My all-time favorite article I've ever worked on is a biography of
Elsie MacGill:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill

who I knew nothing about, but stumbled across and she was so cool that
I had to do some serious research. She was a Canadian who was the
world's first female aircraft designer, during WWII, and was a major
part of Canada's aircraft industry during the war; she had a comic
published about her called "Queen of the Hurricanes"! She later went
on to a career advocating for women's rights. She did all this despite
being disabled by polio and never learning to fly herself.

Also: if anyone is looking for an article subject, I just stumbled on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg_Institute_Women_of_Vision_Awards
Lots of redlinks and promising article subjects in there!

-- phoebe

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Re: [Gendergap] Sharing an article

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to
> occasionally share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to
> gender. If you've worked on something that may be of interest to this list,
> please share your links too!
> -Pete

I'm proud of the work I've done on WisCon, the Tiptree Awards, Broad
Universe, the Carl Brandon Society, and related topics.

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
     --  Desiderius Erasmus

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