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