Good question. In our experience from the weekly editathons in Gothenburg
(https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_kvinnor/Kvinnliga_huvudpersoner_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia)
there are a few things we've learned:
* even though people are interested, it may take a while before they actually
come.
i agree the trend is low undergraduate attendance if not part of grade
some campus marketing (fliers, partnership with groups seems in order)
but we don't have a handle on it.
major divide between readers and editors seems hard to close.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Hi GG mai
Hi GG mailing list and Maria from WMF Eval,
Cascadia Wikimedians ran a series of editathons at the University of
Washington with themes like "Women and astronomy" and "Women and Health
Sciences". We did some communications through the University's Facebook
pages and mailing lists. While we had reg
Is that you I see volunteering to organize one, Marie? :-)
I suspect that is the reason, to be honest - nobody specifically taking the
bull by the horns. It requires interest in the subject, and a willingness
and ability to organize the events. Economics is not a particularly
popular subject (
As much as I like to see an event like this happening, and the Women in Science
event, I'm left wondering why there are no similar events for Women in Politics
or Economics + Feminism.
Marie
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:47:08 -0500
From: i...@art.plusfeminism.org
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
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Hi all!
Tomorrow there will be a feminist edit-a-thon as part of the
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. It is heavily inspired
by the edit-a-thon that was arranged on March 8-9, and we expect to
have a blast.
Links:
http://cphdox.dk/program/film/?id=3330
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/