Last year, I had a discussion with a couple of the female editors on the
Danish-language Wikipedia. They have now created a women's portal:
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_kvinder. I find it a
bit... pink, but I am outside the target demographic, so my opinion is
rather irrelevant :-)
Regards,
Ole
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hey all,
Some times when you put an intention, it gets filled, but in different ways.
:) I wanted to have some type of training for young urban girls in
NY.....and still planning on it...but an opportunity in LA has arisen. I'm
hoping some wiki peeps can help.
I went to an unconference this weekend that was dedicated to increase
diverse voices in media. I met Tani Applessed, who among winning tons of
awards for her documentary work, opened a center that teaches girls in East
and South LA how to use video to tell their story, focusing on reproductive
rights . (I think like 80% of her girls get full scholarships thanks to the
center). She is cutting-edge activist. Her org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImMEDIAte_Justice_Productions
Anyway, i mentioned the wiki efforts to get more girls editting, and Would
LOVE to have someone come this summer to teach her girls how to edit
WIkipedia. (they are also trying to teach them web skills)
Is there anyone in the LA area that can help out, or who I can contact??
Sandy
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Sandra Ordonez
Web Astronaut
"Helping you rock out in the virtual world."
*www.collaborativenation.com*
FYI - We have people in DC organizing a newbies wiki workshop geared towards
women, on June 18. I/we had nothing to do with this but it sounds awesome
:) and it would be great if you can help spread the word to anyone you think
might be interested.
Cheers,
Katie
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From: aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Subject: DC Women Who Wiki Workshop
To: wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org
I noticed that Amy Senger and Steven Mandzik of 1X57 are putting on a wiki
workshop on June 18, geared towards newbies and particularly women, though
anyone is welcome. This looks cool and I encourage spreading the word about
this and if interested, signing up to attend.
Here are the details:
*
DC Women Who Wiki Workshop*
Saturday, June 18, 10am-2pm
JESS3 HQ, 1707 L St. NW Washington, DC 20036
Join us for this free 1/2 day workshop that starts at the very beginning of
wiki editing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_WWW1
And they have an eventbrite page for signup:
http://growwiki.eventbrite.com/
Cheers,
Katie
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Leigh Blackall <leighblackall(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> I think Laura's proposal is the first solid idea to support women engaging
> with Wikimedia Foundation projects. Not only does it seek to improve
> coverage of women and children in sport (a cultural pursuit arguably second
> to none in auatralia), it seeks a model to establish academic recognition
> and engagement in that effort.
>
>
I get the feeling that a fair amount of people (not necessarily on this
list) in general are happy to ignore and dismiss a project about women's
sport because they don't care about sports, and care even less about women's
sport… but in Australia, historically female spectatorship for men's sport
has been pretty high. Other countries in the region also have a strong
tradition associated with that. Similarly, women's sport has been better
supported in Australia and New Zealand than in some places like the USA and
England.
As a not so great feminist, I also think the topic is important to women and
it has the potential to offer greater support for other women's topics on
Wikipedia. A quote from Mariah Burton Nelson's "The Stronger Women Get, The
More Men Love Football" helps explain this:
:::"Sport is a women's issue because on okaying fields, male athletes learn
to talk about and think about women's bodies with contempt. It's a women's
issue because male athletes have disproportionately high rates of sexual
assault on women - including female athletes. It's a women's issue because
the media itself cheers for men's sports and rarely covers women's. It's a
women's issue because of the veiled threat, this is homage paid to bulky,
brutal bodies."
It words things harsher than I might like and make take things to a bit of
an extreme but there you go. (I think you could do a nice tie in with the
feminist project, the women's history project, the LGBT project and a few
others. You could possibly tie in parts to the fashion projects. I was
watching some television somewhere two days ago and they were talking with a
designer about designing footy jerseys and sport uniforms to better show off
women's bodies, uniforms that are less asexual. There is a fair amount of
pictures of women's sport attire and commentary that goes along with it.)
I'd also guess, based on conversations with a male who is heavily involved
with sport articles on Wikipedia, that most articles about women's sport and
female athletes are written predominantly by men. There does not appear to
be a large buy in from women to work on this area. I can think of at least
two female sport contributors who have become disillusioned with Wikipedia
because of harassment/sexism from male editors and lack of support from the
community in updating women related articles for their sport, or even
including women in articles where it makes sense to do so. In existing
female sport projects like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Taskforce_on_wo…,
there doesn't appear to be that much female buy in. On other projects like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Netball , things are
pretty quiet. The netball one feels a bit ironic as a few of these articles
are vandalised on a weekly basis to mention how much an IP editor loves the
sport.
The project would help give recognition to female contributors by giving
them a form of publishing credit. It would provide women and girls with
access to offline sources to learn more about the topic and to celebrate
what women do. It would be great to do a series of articles about women's
sport in say Malawi or the Cook Islands or Samoa or the Northern Marianas…
then publish these as books with ISBN numbers with a letter from the
country's National Olympic Committee and put these books into local
libraries. We've got the resources to do most of this out of UCNISS and if
we had support from WM-AU and Wikipedia editors, it becomes a lot easier.
Recognition can help people validate their hobbies and interests, give them
a goal to work towards, can help get them ready to apply to graduate school
by giving them access to these tools. The project would provide recognition
to women who might otherwise be unable to see the value of their
contributions.
Beyond that, this project helps create a community. You love sport but lack
some of the sources? Once we have our space established, we'll have a space
where the larger community can come together, can work in the same space,
can use our library, can talk to academics in this field, can be given a
tour of Canberra to use other good resources available here like the
National Sport Information Centre. The city is also home to a number of
national sport organisations. A number of athletes train here at the
Australian Institute of Sport. There is a WNBL team. If you're interested
in this like women's sport fashions, we'll help you make those connections.
People, contributors, researchers can be plugged in to this network to help
do original research on a project like Wikiversity, to help write content
publish to the publications we intend to publish. We'll help create an
offline and online community.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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2011/6/2 aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> FYI - We have people in DC organizing a newbies wiki workshop geared
> towards women, on June 18. I/we had nothing to do with this but it sounds
> awesome :) and it would be great if you can help spread the word to anyone
> you think might be interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: aude <aude.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:00 PM
> Subject: DC Women Who Wiki Workshop
> To: wikimedia-dc(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> I noticed that Amy Senger and Steven Mandzik of 1X57 are putting on a wiki
> workshop on June 18, geared towards newbies and particularly women, though
> anyone is welcome. This looks cool and I encourage spreading the word about
> this and if interested, signing up to attend.
>
> Here are the details:
> *
> DC Women Who Wiki Workshop*
>
> Saturday, June 18, 10am-2pm
> JESS3 HQ, 1707 L St. NW Washington, DC 20036
>
> Join us for this free 1/2 day workshop that starts at the very beginning of
> wiki editing.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_WWW1
>
> And they have an eventbrite page for signup:
>
> http://growwiki.eventbrite.com/
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
>
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> filbertk(a)gmail.com
> @filbertkm
>
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With help from my academic department and after asking several people from
my national chapter for help, I've put together for a proposal for a women
and children's sport research centre. It should dovetail with some of WMF's
goals in terms of creating female centric content and trying to get more
women involved in Wikipedia (and related projects). The wider goal is
fundamentally about sharing knowledge and bringing people together in
regards to women and children's sport. It is about making information freely
available and getting as many people as possible to do that. It is about
creating a community, both online and in person, who passionately believe in
the importance of women and children's sport, and providing the community
with tools to share their knowledge in order to help others.
A copy of the proposal can be found at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/UCNISS/Women_and_children%27s_sport_research….
My department is looking to get space and I've taken the first step
towards asking for requesting grant funding from my national chapter.
This proposal intersects with Wikipedia because it would involve setting up
a wikiProject, and trying to provide contributors to the project with formal
recognition for their contributions in ways that could help them establish
academic credentials. It may also provide a path to publishing for
contributors, by providing a clear path to do that on Wikipedia. We've had
several discussions inside my department with others inside WM-AU about how
to do this in terms of academia and our own goals of doing justice for this
topic. Parts of that discussion can be found on
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:UCNISS/Women_and_children%27s_sport_res…
Anyway, feedback on proposal would be very much appreciated as it pertains
to integration of Wikipedia into this proposal.
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