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Feminism-focused Inspire Campaign proposal for distributed editing

Dear WikiProject Women's History: I wish to invite you to review an Inspire Campaign proposal and offer feedback if you wish:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99

What's special about this proposal is it looks to (re)value sporadic editing and respectfully honor the expertise of subject matter experts, without asking them to be responsible for 'fixing' Misplaced Pages's problems. This is a novel approach that perhaps could gain traction with edit-a-thons and WikiProject initiatives because it comes from a feminist pedagogical perspective for analysis in order to generate re-usable lists to share/work on. The topic for the pilot is not yet set, though it will connect to gender studies and/or feminist theory, but however I wanted to ping the WikiProject Women's History as this proposal could be of interest more generally and I would look forward to your feedback.

Best

Monika Shameran81 (talk) 20:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Presentation proposal for Wikimania 2015

Hello! Victuallers and I have developed a draft proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. A friendly FYI... I have mentioned this WikiProject in the proposal! The proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you're interested in the talk (it does not signify you'll be attending the event). Thank you! --Rosiestep (talk) 21:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Can't sign that form. The "new way to make editing easier" doesn't work. Won't let me put in tildes, won't let me put in my UserName. Won't let me do anything. Just says <no wiki>. Apparently, I am banned from answering, in the easy format. *sigh* Last thing I want is even MORE complicated programming nonsense. SusunW (talk) 23:12, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW:, I have the same problem when clicking the "Edit" button, but I have no problems editing that page when I click the "Edit source" button. Hope this helps? --Rosiestep (talk) 23:15, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Yay! That worked. Thank you :) P.S. Dear "Betatest Person in the Sky" please see this. Last thing we need is a simplification that is confusing and frustrating. SusunW (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi SusunW, Thanks for your note, and for your persistence. VisualEditor is not intended to be used for discussions (outside of Flow, which automatically signs posts), so it contains no signature tool. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing: LOL I am reminded of something Whoopi Goldberg said in Jumping Jack Flash ... "Mick, Mick! Speak Engish!" Goes directly to my point, that programmers speak the language of programming, not writing. What does "outside of Flow" mean? How can it NOT be used for discussions when it is what is driving the "Talk" or "Discussion" page, or in this case the "sign up"? SusunW (talk) 17:01, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

WP:Flow is a discussion system. In an ideal world, VisualEditor wouldn't have been turned on for that page. "Edit source" is always available, and needs to be used on discussion pages (unless you want to hand-type your signature, which I'm too lazy to do  ;-) WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:07, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

• And I add my voice to the ranks of those who loathe Visual editor and will note to the same "Betatast person in the sky: "YO! Guess what? SusunW is a new woman editor, you know, the ones you claim that VE was supposed to help? Guess what? It's not helping!" Montanabw 05:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Women's History Month

A user has added information about Women's History Month on the Help Desk, I've added it to Talk:Women's History Month. can someone please look at it?Naraht (talk) 02:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Quick note on a related point: There are a lot of edit-a-thons going on this weekend, because of women's history month. With any luck, we'll see lots of promising new editors. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

New Misplaced Pages Library Donations

Hello all, there are two recent donations available through The Misplaced Pages Library that are relevant to this project: WP:Women Writers Online and WP:Project MUSE. Please sign up for the accounts if you think you can use them. Enjoy! Nikkimaria (talk) 04:15, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I would love to have one, but the criteria says you must have been editing for over a year. Hopefully they will do this again. SusunW (talk) 04:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

International Women of Courage Award: 10 articles to create

10 women have received the International Women of Courage Award 2015. None have an article yet, please help create them, thanks! Nicolas1981 (talk) 01:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

All done SusunW (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: Wow. Thanks for doing that. --Rosekelleher (talk) 17:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Adding women to Days of the Year

Hello, I'd like to invite comment/discussion on a project proposal to add more women to Misplaced Pages's Days of the Year.

The Idea Page is here

Thanks! Natalie Bueno Vasquez (talk) 19:10, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Marie Stopes

• Marie Stopes

The article has been expanded in recent years. There's plenty of good material there already, and there's plenty of high quality biographies and other sources out there that could be used to expand and improve the article. If someone is willing to put in the work, this article could easily reach Good Article or Featured Article status. Just a matter of someone putting in the work. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Women in Jazz

Just letting you all know there's a page called Women in Jazz which needs some attention to it. I think it would be a fascinating article if someone could expand it. Turn➦ 04:21, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton

Interested project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Misplaced Pages articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:11, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/African American women in computer science

African American women in computer science is at AfD; as is African American men in computer science.--Djembayz (talk) 04:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Video vixen listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Video vixen. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:30, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

broken links - Women's History articles by quality and importance

The links in the Women's History articles by quality and importance section are broken. Lugevas (talk) 18:05, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

looking for those interested in our project

greetings.

my name is lori brown (usa) and with justine clark (australia) and eleanor chapman (germany), we have applied for a grant to write more women architects and designers into wikipedia. we welcome comments and support for our project. in our own countries, hosted wiki writing parties on march 8, international women's day, as a way to begin these efforts. https://meta.wikimedia.org/Grants:IdeaLab/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia we look forward to hearing from you.74.79.86.78 (talk) 02:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)loriannbrown

I'm always in favor of more coverage of women architects and designers. Good project! Binksternet (talk) 04:30, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Let's get Irena Sendler to Good Article!

Irena Sendler is one of Poland's most popular articles (listed as 79 in the current Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Poland/Popular_pages), and based on that I wager she is one of the most famous encyclopedic women (as in, in the Top 1000 or so). She was only a start-class article; I've improved her and I think she is ready for a B-class reassessment. I'd appreciate proofreading and copyediting before a Good Article nomination. Can anyone help? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:38, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request

Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Task Force

Does WikiProject Women's History currently have a task force? If so could you please post a link to it here? Thanks! Maranjosie (talk) 14:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is a discussion at meta, Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting, that may be of interest to members of the project. Lightbreather (talk) 14:19, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Antonia Minor listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Antonia Minor to be moved to Antonia the Younger. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

List of elected female political office-holders in the United Kingdom listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of elected female political office-holders in the United Kingdom to be moved to Lists of female political office-holders in the United Kingdom. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:22, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

"WIGI: Misplaced Pages Gender Inequality Index" Survey invitation

Hello WikiProject Women's History participants,

I am a member of Misplaced Pages Gender Inequality Index (WIGI) project. WIGI is an Individual Engagement Grant that seeks to automate the production and graphing of statistical presentation of gender in articles by various categories such as date of birth, citizenship, occupation, etc. - in a publicly viewable website with open-data downloads.

We're running a brief survey to find out what kind of information users would like captured, ideally about the state of Misplaced Pages biographies. We will use it to inform what statistics our portal will show and provide a final report on the observed trends at the end of the year. Please help us out by completing this brief survey, which should take not more than 5 minutes to complete. Simply click on the link below, or cut and paste the bare URL into your browser to access the survey:

Survey link wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3OueVOHoRpezvZH

Thank you for your time and cooperation. Best Regards, —M@sssly 15:03, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Misplaced Pages articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Misplaced Pages, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa