Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Women's History Month interviews

2021-03-04 Thread Roger Bamkin
Thanks for the reply Katie. Pleased to see you have thought about it. It is so frequently sold as a "women's issue" as its an easy narrative to conflate our editor bias with systemic information bias. But its counter productive IMO. cheers Roger On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 15:06, Katie Crampton < kati

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Women's History Month interviews

2021-02-26 Thread Katie Crampton
Hi Roger Yes it's covered in the videos, especially in Victoria's interview. I have yet to interview Alice and Lucy, but I know they acknowledge the allies we have in male editors. As it's our first year doing the videos and there are only 5 Mondays in March, we felt these were the people we wante

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Women's History Month interviews

2021-02-26 Thread Roger Bamkin
Thanks Katie, This is good news, but it does continue the idea that the gender gap is a women's problem. This is much too important to leave to < 20% of our editors but maybe these interviews will say that. I hope so. There have been >45 women in red editathons organised by Ewan and they sho

[Wikimediauk-l] Women's History Month interviews

2021-02-26 Thread Katie Crampton
Hi all We've done a series of interviews with some great women who are closing the gender gap on Wikipedia and its sister projects for Women's History Month. They'll be released every Monday in March at 4pm on our YouTube. First up is Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director at Art+Feminism, going liv