Hello there,
As a new female Wikimedian in Residence at Museums Galleries Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museums_Galleries_Scotland) I'd certainly be interested!
Sara ThomasUser:lirazelfWikimedian in ResidenceMuseums Galleries Scotland / Glasgow Museums
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From: Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
Date: 30 January 2015 at 15:54
Subject: [Gendergap] Need for women as Wikipedians in Residence
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
One of the issues that faces anyone who tries to create Wikipedia articles about women is that there is less details about their accomplishments in reliable sources. This piece highlights the problem.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/30/colleen-mcculloch-well…
For this reason, it is great for us to form initiatives with outside organizations who generate content so we can reinforce the importance of creating material that covers women's accomplishments in a greater level of detail.
Our initiatives are a two way street. Working inside of GLAMs (Galleries, libraries, archives, museums), universities, government agencies, not for profit organizations of all types gives us an opportunity to talk about the best way that an organizations can create material suitable for Wikipedia. And we gain a better understanding of how their content can be shared with the wikimedia movement.
Wikipedian in Residence is one way for people to create initiatives with outside organizations. Having women in these positions helps to decrease biases. Some women are doing an awesome job in these positions now and in the past.
My experience working at Cochrane Collaboration as Wikipedian in Residence is positive and I encourage women to apply for these position when they are posted.
Also, we can approach organizations that would be good partners for creating content about women and organize initiatives with them.
If there is a strong interest, maybe we could have a google hangout call to talk about this in more detail.
Sydney Poore
User:FloNightWikipedian in Residenceat Cochrane Collaboration
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One of the issues that faces anyone who tries to create Wikipedia articles
about women is that there is less details about their accomplishments in
reliable sources. This piece highlights the problem.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/30/colleen-mcculloch-well…
For this reason, it is great for us to form initiatives with outside
organizations who generate content so we can reinforce the importance of
creating material that covers women's accomplishments in a greater level of
detail.
Our initiatives are a two way street. Working inside of GLAMs (Galleries,
libraries, archives, museums), universities, government agencies, not for
profit organizations of all types gives us an opportunity to talk about the
best way that an organizations can create material suitable for Wikipedia.
And we gain a better understanding of how their content can be shared with
the wikimedia movement.
Wikipedian in Residence is one way for people to create initiatives with
outside organizations. Having women in these positions helps to decrease
biases. Some women are doing an awesome job in these positions now and in
the past.
My experience working at Cochrane Collaboration as Wikipedian in Residence
is positive and I encourage women to apply for these position when they are
posted.
Also, we can approach organizations that would be good partners for
creating content about women and organize initiatives with them.
If there is a strong interest, maybe we could have a google hangout call to
talk about this in more detail.
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration