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 < katie.cramp...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > 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 wanted to ask. > While I appreciate that the gender gap is not only a women's issue, I feel > that these women are the best people to speak on their work. > > Thanks for the offer. I actually emailed Ewan to offer him a blog spot, > but after some discussion Sarah Lappin will be writing one for us on her > upcoming event (you can sign up here > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-empowered-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-141961184725>). > Lucy will be covering the work of great Wikimedians in Residence like Ewan, > that's sort of the idea for her interview i.e. to round up anything that's > not been covered in the first 4 interviews and to ask editors who aren't > women to get involved. > > Best wishes > Katie > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 14:20, Roger Bamkin <ro...@bamkin.org.uk> wrote: > >> 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 >> should get a mention I reckon. >> >> I could offer you a blog on the subject? >> >> Roger >> >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:12, Katie Crampton < >> katie.cramp...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> live here <https://youtu.be/F4DQnwnFrqM>. Then we'll have Rebecca >>> O'Neill from Wikimedia Community Ireland, Victoria Leonard from the Women's >>> Classics Committee, Alice White our Wikimedian in Residence at the >>> Wellcome Trust, and finally Lucy to round up the month and Wikimedia UK's >>> activities. >>> >>> Hope you all have a lovely weekend in the sunshine. >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Katie >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Katie Crampton (she/her) >>> >>> Communications & Governance Coordinator >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> >>> >>> Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter >>> for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. >>> >>> Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by >>> Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. >>> >>> Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, >>> London SE1 0NZ >>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gmail&source=g> >>> . >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia UK mailing list >>> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >>> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >>> >> >> >> -- >> Roger Bamkin >> *0771 9790901* >> 01835 864317 >> Jedburgh, Scotland >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> > > > -- > > Katie Crampton (she/her) > > Communications & Governance Coordinator > > > > > <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/> > > Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for > the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. > > Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by > Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. > > Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, > London SE1 0NZ > <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gmail&source=g> > . > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Roger Bamkin *0771 9790901* 01835 864317 Jedburgh, Scotland
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