[Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

2018-03-11 Thread David Gerard
Got a call on Friday from Fiona Tatton from Womanthology. She was interested in talking to someone who's worked on improving representation of women in Wikipedia, and editing Wikipedia. Coverage is basically talking to individuals about what they do. I'm pretty sure this'll be a positive for our

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

2018-03-11 Thread Roger Bamkin
Hi David, I started Women in Red which moved the needle from 14% to 17.49%. She can see the twitter page at #wikiwomeninred and there is a women in red Wikipedia page. We can also talk about the work we hsave done with United Nations, Unesco, cambridge uni, wikimedia uk, ng, fr, ca, etc and the BB

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

2018-03-11 Thread Richard Nevell
I think this would be a good opportunity for one of Wikimedia UK's female volunteers to talk about their work. On 11 Mar 2018 13:00, "Roger Bamkin" wrote: Hi David, I started Women in Red which moved the needle from 14% to 17.49%. She can see the twitter page at #wikiwomeninred and there is a w