On 6/23/2014 1:49 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote:

Studies are useful. This particular study shows promise I think: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia For allies these sorts of things help us understand what we are actually trying to accomplish and metrics are useful for determining if we’ve actually made any progress. It is hard to quantitatively measure a culture though. This sort of research also publicises the problem, which is something that there can never be enough of I think.

*This latest one has delved more than past ones into some of the issues; I think the issues are pretty much known by most women who've been around the wikis a bit, it's solutions that are needed.

Maybe it would be worth making threads for some of these ideas. If no one else does, I’d be happy to.

*Threads here? Like proposals that could be worked over and brought to our various wikis? That's what we need to do. I re-named one thread that dealt with one issue and renamed this one too, just for emphasis...