Dear all,
It's Ada Lovelace Day on 16 October and it's most suitable for Wikimedia UK
to get involved. The day exists to celebrate the contributions of women in
the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As you may
know, Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, due to her work on
Charles Babbage's analytical engine. As such, she's someone we can very
much hold up as a role model. Wikimedia UK is organising a Women in Science
themed editing event for Ada Lovelace Day on* Friday 19 October* 2012 and
would like to invite you to attend!
We have organised a group 'Edit-a-thon' to improve Wikipedia articles about
women in science, held at the Royal Society's library, London, 2:30-6pm. We
had a very high response from the academic community, and we filled many
more spaces than expected! However, there are still a couple of places free
for people who would like to help train new contributors - please get in
touch if you are interested. There will also be opportunities to get
involved online, which we will publish at our Wikimedia UK event's
page<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012>(see below).
Following the Edit-a-thon there will be an panel discussion with Uta Frith
from the Royal Society and other female scientists on women in science (the
focus will be much broader than just the representation of the topic on
Wikipedia). The panel discussion will take place from* 6:30pm - 8:00pm, *and
you are most welcome to attend - there are still free places available, so
please feel free to register here
*http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/wikipedia-workshop/*
Wikimedia UK also has a page for the event, which you can see here
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012
Hope to see many of you there.
Best,
Daria
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking for someone who can translate an English blog from English
to French. It's for our WikiWomen channel on the Wikimedia Foundation
Blog. It's about a recent edit-a-thon that took place in Ottawa.
If you can help me, please let me know and I will link you to it. I
would DEEPLY appreciate it!! (And I'd need it done by Monday)
Thanks,
-Sarah
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If anyone is interested in helping to improve Wikipedia articles
related to women in the Islamic world, this is a promising wiki-course
this semester at Colgate University in NY:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USEP_Women_in_Religious_Traditions:_…
Please let me know if you'd like to volunteer as 'Online Ambassador',
and I'd be glad to put you in touch with Aisha Musa, the professor for
this course,
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi everyone!!
The second part of my fellowship has involved developing an online
social initiative to engage women who edit - and women who want to learn
how to contribute and edit - Wikipedia! Well, the project has launched
today - with the help of volunteers from around the world.
Please check out the blog here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/26/wikiwomen-unite/
That expresses some calls to action you can do to be involved - like us
on Facebook and be involved in the page, interact with us on Twitter,
and write for our blog!! We now have a "WikiWomen" blog track on the
Wikimedia Foundation blog - and your stories and voices are IMPERATIVE
to making it a success!
See you on wiki...and Facebook! :)
http://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative
(Please share and spread the word...it's primarily in English right now,
but all languages and and contributions are needed).
Sarah
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Hi all,Beeing ambushed by an article in one of tha biggest papers in Sweden talking about the Brittish Ada edit-a-thon (http://www.dn.se/nyheter/brittiskt-initiativ-ska-ge-fler-kvinnor-pa-wikiped…) and that nothing would be done in Sweden I finally got around to sort things out and finalize our event. A new article promotes our edit-a-thon in a nice way (http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/svenska-wikipeida-skapar-dag-for-kvinnoartiklar) and so far we have four participants for in place and a bunch for the online activities.
Feel free to add articles to write or expand under "Artiklar att jobba med" on http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Skrivstuga/Ada_Lovelace_2012 and sign up for tickets at http://adaskrivstuga2012.eventbrite.com/, "På plats" if you intend to come to Stockholm to participate and "online" if you want to help out from other places.
/axel
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Axel PetterssonProjektledare GLAM/OutreachWikimedia Sverige
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Wikimedia.se - Stöd fri kunskap!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_Wikipedians
How did we go from a dozen to 1,700? Some other category got renamed
and redirected?
Or some bot added everyone who had one of the user boxes in that category??
Looked at a few and didn't see evidence someone manually added them all.
FYI.
CM
Hi everyone,
I'm putting together a timeline of women's and transwomen's roles in the
movement or subjects on Wikipedia. I'd like to have your input on the
following:
* Women who have been involved in the founding of a chapter or
organization related to Wikimedia projects
* First women of Wikimedia projects - women who played pioneering or
important roles in Wikimedia projects as say, the first woman.
* Do you know the first article or content in your project that was
related to a woman? Or perhaps the first Featured Article in your
Wikipedia that was a biography about a woman (or the like).
I understand that not all women want to be associated as pertinent
figures in the movement based on gender!
I'd appreciate any insight and media (images released CC BY A or PD
preferably) related to this "history".
Please email me OFFLIST.
sarahstierch at gmail.com
Thanks :)
-Sarah
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Hey folks,
I got a call from a friend this morning, who mentioned to me that
Michele Landsberg is unhappy about her article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Landsberg
Michele's a prominent Canadian feminist journalist, and apparently she
believes her article's been skewed by men's rights advocates trying to
overweight controversies in her work.
If anyone has some time to take a crack at improving her article
that'd be great. If not, I will do it, maybe on the weekend.
Thanks,
Sue
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