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 <roger(a)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.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
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Afternoon all,
On Sunday 26th November this year we’ll be holding an online Wikimedia UK
2023 Community Meeting. We’ll be presenting the Wikimedian of the Year
awards, celebrating the work of the community, and showcasing ways in which
volunteers can get involved through an opportunities fair.
For the *lightning talks *section, we’d like to showcase activity that
community members have been doing over the last while, and we'd really like
to hear about work which we, or other community members might not have
heard about. It’s often the case that there’s a huge amount of work done
by Wikimedians that others just don’t see. So this is an invitation to
tell us about what you’ve been editing, in a short lightning talk -
strictly 5 minutes or less.
Have you done interesting things with a dataset on Wikidata? Maybe
you’ve finally managed to track down a source to fix that article you’ve
had your eye on for the last two months? Did your work on a Wikipedia
article lead you to discover a really interesting story? Did you manage to
get an openly licensed image that’s transformed an article?
… and crucially, would you like to share your story? If you’d like to
present a lighting talk - 5 minutes maximum - please email
sara.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk off-list and we can chat.
If you’re uncomfortable with public speaking, please do still get in
touch and we can talk about options! Maybe we can do a slideshow, or
record an interview, or put a short video together. (Ideally we’d rather
that it was community members who speak in this section of the day and not
WMUK staff members.)
All the best,
Sara
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