On 6/23/2014 3:17 PM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
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...
I'm not very familiar with the process of starting Wikiprojects, but I
imagine the biggest barrier to entry to this would be finding someone
for each language. I imagine that this would work something like the
ambassador program, at least on the smaller Wikipedias. This is to say
on Wikipedias where the project is too small to really have someone
who can handle the Wikiproject we would find a volunteer on Meta who
speaks that language and would have them generally just keep an eye on
things. Each of these Wikiprojects should have a noticeboard of some
sort that folks having issues can post to that the ambassador type
would keep an eye on.
Does this all sound reasonable?
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
First, of course, there is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gender_Studies which
even has a Mind_the_Gap_Award And of course there is a Wikiproject
Feminism. And I'm sure other languages have such projects.
Would it want to take on subpages that dealt with women's issues with
harassment, insults, double standards and the stickier problems that
bother women?
Of course, I remember when something with such a goal was proposed way
back in 2011 on this list there were concerns about it giving women
specifial privileges or something. I forget. People created the Tea
House instead.
But some relevant subgroup of Wikiproject Gender Studies or Feminism,
like anything else, some women hopefully have to spearhead it and
maintain it. I'm too burned out myself.
CM