Delivered as a lightning talk in WikiWomen Camp 2017, Mexico City, 2017/7/6 around 14:00-16:00. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2017/Programme#Lightning_talks

1. A Room ofA Room of
WikiWomen’s OwnWikiWomen’s Own
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2017/7/62017/7/6

2. ““A Room of WikiWomen’s Own” is created byA Room of WikiWomen’s Own” is created by imacat (Yang Shih-Ching)imacat (Yang Shih-Ching),,
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Derived from the presentation by Jessie Mi.Derived from the presentation by Jessie Mi.

3. ContentsContents
• Introduction
• “Herstory”
• Our Works
• Important Events

4. imacat / Yang Shih-Chingimacat / Yang Shih-Ching
• Co-founder of WikiWomen Taiwan
• Founder of Women in FOSS in Taiwan and
PyLadies Taiwan
• Member of Apache OpenOffice Project
Management Committee
– You can ask me about OpenOffice/LibreOffice ^_^
• Years of work in eliminating gender gap in IT
areas

5. IntroductionIntroduction
• WikiWomen Taiwan is a group of girls who
love to write for Wikipedia and to promote
Wikipedia editing among women.

6. IntroductionIntroduction
• Our Chinese name, “ 薇姬” , are feminine
Chinese words that pronounces the same as the
Chinese name of Wiki, “ 維基” .

7. IntroductionIntroduction
• Our slogan is “A Room of WikiWomen’s Own
( 薇姬的房間 )”. It is taken from the name of
an essay of Virginia Woolf, “A Room of
One’s Own ( 自己的房間 )”, based on the
concept “a woman must have money and a
room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

8. ““Herstory”Herstory”
• In the end of 2014, Reke Wang from
Wikimedia Taiwan came to WoFOSS for
starting WikiWomen Taiwan.

9. ““Herstory”Herstory”
• After 6 months of discussion, we started our
first meeting on 2015/4/21.

10. ““Herstory”Herstory”
Our First Meeting 2015/4/21Our First Meeting 2015/4/21

11. ““Herstory”Herstory”
• We elected Jessie Mi as our organizer in our
first meeting.

12. Our WorksOur Works
• WikiWomen Taiwan meets on a monthly base.
– Starting from April 2015, we held 27 meetings.
– With totally 364 attendants, 13.48 attendants per
meeting on average.
– 90 distinguished people.

13. Our WorksOur Works
• Our meetings are hosted on KKTIX (Taiwan).
– https://wikiwomen.kktix.cc/

14. Our WorksOur Works
• We regularly discuss on Facebook.
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiwomenTW/

15. Important EventsImportant Events
2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures
• Wei Hai-Ming
（魏海敏） , the
Chinese Opera
actress

16. Important EventsImportant Events
2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures
• Hsieh Ying-chun
（謝瀛春） , the
editor of popular
science

17. Important EventsImportant Events
2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures2016 Biographies of Taiwan Female Figures
• Lin Wenyue
（林文月） , the
writer

18. Important EventsImportant Events
2016/3/5 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon2016/3/5 Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon

19. Important EventsImportant Events
2017 Women in Red2017 Women in Red

20. Important EventsImportant Events
2017/6/24 WikiWomen Love Earth2017/6/24 WikiWomen Love Earth
• We went to Guandu
Nature Reserve for
ecological
photography.

21. Thank you.Thank you.