Hi Roger! Thanks for this - I'll reply off-list.
(and yes, the women in the 1990s approaching 50% is great - although there's a lot of caveats to it, needing to exclude sportspeople etc, it's still a really encouraging trend :) ) All the best, Sara On Sat, 30 Sept 2023 at 09:42, Roger Bamkin <ro...@bamkin.org.uk> wrote: > Eight years of women in red, based talks? > > 280 online editathons. 70 training sessions in the UK. A budget of zero. > Not a WMF affiliate. Sessions at BBC, UN, Several unis, 24 hour, different > countries... Sister Projects in more than 30 languages. Every woman (ish) > who was in the ODNB when WiR started and was a WiR now has an article. Was > 15% now approaching 20%. Will we ever achieve 50? We did last year. Does > this need five mins? ... I think most already know this. > > Maybe more interesting to talk about just the Eight years of doing every > ODNB women in red ... which women were most intriguing? History of the UK > in 100 women? > > I was most stunned that it was first found this year that there is a way > of looking at Wikipedia that indicates that 50% women is emerging on the > English Wikipedia? > > I will be at the monthly Women in Red editathon at 1 pm today. Maybe we > could discuss it then.... not heard of the monthly WiR editathons??? > > Search for wir Eventbrite university of Edinburgh Wikipedia and the > amazing Ewan McAndrew etc. and book a place > > could also start a debate at Www.womeninred.org? > > Roger 01835 864317 > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2023, 5:26 pm Sara Thomas, <sara.tho...@wikimedia.org.uk> > wrote: > >> Afternoon all, >> >> >> On Sunday 26th November this year we’ll be holding an online Wikimedia UK >> 2023 Community Meeting. 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