Hello everyone,
If you're subscribed to the gender gap mailing list, then you may have seen
this message from Fabrice Florin. It would be great if we participate with
post(s) about Wikipedia Education Program and the role it plays to increase
gender diversity on Wikipedia.
If you have any ideas, please let me know. I will be happy to help and work
together with you on such ideas!
Thank you,
Samir
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Greetings!
In March 2015, the Wikimedia Blog will focus on women and the gender gap
on Wikipedia and sister projects, to coincide with International Women's
Day and related events such as WikiWomen's March.
We aim to raise awareness about issues faced by women on our sites — and
invite ideas for solving them together, as part of the new Inspire Grants
program that launches next week.
We are looking for a few more authors to write stories about practical
solutions to this important challenge, such as:
• reports on programs that seem to be addressing these issues successfully
• overview of the best research studies on this topic
• best practices for increasing diverse contributions
Here are some of the questions we hope to answer through this coverage:
• How are women contributing to our sites today?
• What can we do to support them more effectively?
• How can we get more articles written about women and women’s issues?
We will publish up to a dozen stories on this topic throughout the month,
including:
• profiles of WikiWomen that are making exceptional contributions and
changing our culture
• reports about worldwide edit-a-thons on International Women’s Day
• community picks of great articles and images about women on the wikis
Here are some of the stories now on our calendar for the month of March:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Calendar#March_2015
What are we missing? Would you like to submit a story on this topic?
If so, please respond on this list, or contact me directly — or better
yet, post your draft on the blog, after reviewing these guidelines:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines
We will be reviewing new submissions for this campaign until March 10th,
2015.
Learn more about this editorial campaign here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Topics/Women_and_the_gender_…
We look forward to working with you to spread the word about this
opportunity to grow and diversify our movement.
Best regards,
Fabrice
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Fabrice Florin
Wikimedia Blog Editor
Movement Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
fflorin(a)wikimedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
@fabriceflorin
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