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I have had an account at Wikipedia since 25 July 2005. |
I have had an account at Wikipedia since 25 July 2005. |
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I've been away. I'm back. Trying to get involved by working on the Gendergap and connecting with my regional group - Cascadia. |
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*A page I created for an important woman in women's healthcare is up for deletion and it fills me with rage so I will stop editing at all anymore. Here is what I wrote. Its really hard to summarize the reasons for my rage. But I try. |
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[[File:We Can Edit.jpg|thumb|''We can'' make Wikipedia a better resource for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History|Women's History]].]] |
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*REALLY?! REALLY!?!? There is a huge discussion right now about how women editors and subjects are excluded from Wikipedia. Women are FIGHTING to have important women included in Wikipedia. This woman has written 5 books. What do you want???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I am one of the very very few women editors on Wikipedia. But I have stopped editing because of stupid idiotic deletions like this. This is not only incredibly discouraging it fills me with rage. I fucking give up. --[[User:CDA|<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#CC4E5C; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">CDA</span>]] 15:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC) |
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[[File:Mind the gap1.png|thumb|right|...and while you're at it, don't forget to ''mind the gap''!]] |
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'''1. Connect with women in social media through Facebook and the gendergap mailing list''' |
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*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/111731472234343/ Wikipedia Women] this Facebook group is the place to communicate with other women Wikipedia editors (is there a better one-stop place?) |
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*[https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap Gendergap Wikimedia listeserve] mailing list that morphed into the above mentioned Facebook group |
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*[https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative WikiWomens Collaborative] Facebook page |
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Follow these on Twitter and use hashtags #gendergap #wikiwomen |
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*[https://twitter.com/wikiwomen WikiWomen's Collab @WikiWomen] Engaging and celebrating the women who help build the world's largest encyclopedia - Wikipedia! |
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*[https://twitter.com/deeAuvil/lists/wikiwomen WikiWomen] Twitter list |
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'''2. Join a project.''' I decided to join the Women's History Project because I thought that covered the most areas I am interested in. |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History] I joined by adding my name to the list below |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Participants WikiProject Women's History/Participants] |
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*Within women's history project there are taskforces you can join [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Taskforces WikiProject Women's History/Taskforces] |
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I also joined the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force] by adding my name to the list at |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force&action=edit§ion=2 Participants] |
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'''3. Host or promote an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon editathon].''' This is the primary way to connect with other women and encourage them to become Wikipedia editors. Update - now, after reading posts at the gendergap mailing list, I'm sorry to find out that editathons don't really work to get people to edit after the event. I'm also having second thoughts about recommending that women in my community join a place that has such a hostile environment. But I think I will still participate in an editathon as a way to promote Wikipedia and I am just going to have to be brutally honest about what they will find themselves up against. |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month WikiWomen's History Month MARCH 2015] |
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'''4. Brush up on how to edit Wikipedia.''' Here are pages everyone needs to read to edit Wikipedia |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Creative_professionals Notability] this is the most important thing to understand before editing Wikipedia |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources Sources] Here is a discussion on sources. (I wish this included oral history - that is going to be my project for 2015 - archiving and learning to cite oral history.) |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_Creating,_and_Maintaining_Articles/Documenting_Your_Sources Wikipedia: The Missing Manual] has a good short ref guide to citing sources |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup Wiki markup] or see the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Cheatsheet] |
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules Ignore all rules] "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." This, of course, is meant to be used sparingly. |
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== MY PRIORITIES == |
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# Improve public health pages because people use Wikipedia as a source for knowledge about improving their health |
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# Improve biography pages of women in history so young girls can learn more about their role models |
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# Learn how to cite oral history |
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# Somehow get involved in encouraging girls in grade school to study math and science (not sure how to do this) - so in other words I will not be working on pages like current biographies of women in science because I think the best focus for my time would be encouraging girls in real life |
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== Encouraging girls in math and science == |
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<blockquote>Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington found that there’s a window of opportunity during these early years in which, while girls do see math largely as a male preserve, they haven’t yet made the connection that “because I am a girl, math is not for me.” During this short period, girls are relatively open to the idea that they can enjoy and do well at math. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/11/new-research-how-girls-can-win-in-math-and-science.html New Research: How Girls Can Win in Math and Science] WRITTEN BY Caryl Rivers Rosalind C. Barnett</blockquote> |
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== Wikipedians: Stop Creating Pages for Non-notable Murder and Kidnap Victims == |
== Wikipedians: Stop Creating Pages for Non-notable Murder and Kidnap Victims == |
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Revision as of 15:35, 20 December 2015
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I have had an account at Wikipedia since 25 July 2005.
- A page I created for an important woman in women's healthcare is up for deletion and it fills me with rage so I will stop editing at all anymore. Here is what I wrote. Its really hard to summarize the reasons for my rage. But I try.
- REALLY?! REALLY!?!? There is a huge discussion right now about how women editors and subjects are excluded from Wikipedia. Women are FIGHTING to have important women included in Wikipedia. This woman has written 5 books. What do you want???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I am one of the very very few women editors on Wikipedia. But I have stopped editing because of stupid idiotic deletions like this. This is not only incredibly discouraging it fills me with rage. I fucking give up. --CDA 15:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedians: Stop Creating Pages for Non-notable Murder and Kidnap Victims
This is against Wikipedia policy and if a page is created and the victim is not notable in their own right then the page will get re-directed to their kidnapper or murderer. Which I despise. So don't do it! Message me if you do not understand what I am saying.
ETC.
Cascadia - I joined this group for people in my geographical region
- Cascadia Wikimedians
- Wikimedia Cascadia group mailing list join this mailing list
Related links
If I have time I would like to join the WikiProject Medicine by adding my name to their participant list.
- I will probably join the reproductive medicine task force
If I have more time I would like to work on women artist's pages
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. I am interested in local history and especially biographies. I am a photographer and I enjoy preserving and archiving historical photographs. I currently live in Washington.
I am a descendant of Longhunters.
Some pages I have created that were not deleted by gangsters (see my talk page discussion about Nan Koehler, for example)
Cascadia pages
- Jaco Finlay I have met his descendants. He is allowed to stay on Wikipedia. After a fight. Maybe because he is a man. But, good for you Jaco!
- Kootanae House, Kullyspell House, Saleesh House, Spokane House, Fort Colvile
- Albert Horsley
- William T. Phillips
- Anaconda Road Massacre
- Coeur d'Alene miners' dispute
- The Davenport Hotel (Spokane, Washington)
- Patsy Clark Mansion
- Maggie Hall you may know her as Molly B'Damn
- May Arkwright no one compares to you, May.
- F. Lewis Clark
- Kirtland Cutter
- Spokane University
- Washington Medal of Merit
- David P. Jenkins
- Grady Auvil
- Red River Academy (Manitoba) (school of Ranald MacDonald) - this page needs work
- Jack Nisbet writes about the Northwest
Women's pages
- Jeannine Parvati Baker I wrote to her about some theory I had and she wrote back encouraging my search for knowledge. I miss her presence in this world.
- Margie Profet important outsider scientist (although my outsider scientist category was deleted!)
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe
- Grace Drayton
- Mothering (magazine)
Other
- American Fancy - decorative style
- Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
- Bart the Bear, my favorite actor
- List of most expensive photographs
- I saw a documentary on the Z Channel so I created a page for it. I had never seen the channel but I thought it was pretty interesting - all those great movies. I didn't really see many movies until I bought a VCR in the 1980s. Reading about Z Channel led me to create the Jerry Harvey (screenwriter) page (he chose the movies for Z Channel). I was sad to read about the despair that made him murder his girlfriend and then commit suicide. I was thinking about Phil Hartman, too, at the time. And how I missed his comedy. And so I created Category:Murder-suicides as a kind of memorial to people we have lost this way. I see it has branches now like Category: Murder-suicides in the United States. But the original category I created.
- Lynn Harrell
- Maurice Mességué
- Vernacular photography
- Mechanical bank
- Devil Anse Hatfield
- Native American Music Awards
- Mexican divorce I'm surprised this one is still on Wikipedia. But I hope it stays because I want this to be my legacy - the person who added Mexican divorce to Wikipedia.
(End of pages I created.)
Timeline of photography technology / Stock photography
Pioneers of Photography / List of Notable Photographers
List of most expensive photographs / Category:Memorable photographs
A gallery of images I have uploaded to the Commons
sandbox
I am also interested in Portal:Sustainable_development
| This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.
The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". |
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| incl | This user is an inclusionist. |
 | This user supports sustainable living. |
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This user enjoys reading Biographies. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women's History. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women artists. |
 | This user is a member of the Gender gap task force (GGTF). |