I think a version of Marie's idea for an "umbrella" to help with
diversity-related articles might be quite useful. A number of experienced
editors have been trying to do this on an adhoc basis, but it's hard to
scale.
Perhaps it would make sense to revive WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias,
or reformulate something like WikiProject Diversity. I can see the point
that a typical wikiproject oriented around a particular subject area
(rather than to fostering diversity in general) might be a somewhat
limiting definition.
Dr Strassman is actually chair of the board of the Wiki Education
Foundation, serving the education program in the US and Canada (I am
another one of the board members). Certainly the education program model
of "ambassadors" is something that can be built on.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Sarah <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Marie Earley
<eiryel(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
A subpage in an existing project would be one
idea but please not the
Feminism project. I was invited to it very early on by well meaning editors
as a place for such discussions but found sex-positive feminists who think
female porn stars are the definition of female empowerment.
Gender Studies is fine, but how about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Discrimination
Perhaps in the short-term the use of the following templates could be
extended, or similar templates developed to cover identified articles, so
editors work on draft changes on their user page, they are checked by
gender-friendly ambassadors who are also have specialist knowledge in the
area that the article covers. It would be less about taking on individual
editors and their behaviour, and more about saying, "actually a decision
has been made to put this article under an umbrella."
* Template:WAP assignment
* Template:Educational assignment
* Template:Course assignment
Example template code:
{{main other||{{tmbox| image = [[File:Male_and_female_sign.svg|50px]]|
style = text-align:center;| text = This article {{#if:{{{ended|}}}|
{{#switch:{{{ended|}}}|NO|N|n|False|false|no=is|#default=was}}|is}} the
subject of gender related affirmative action {{#if:{{{university|}}}|at
{{{university}}}}} supported by
{{#if:{{{project|}}}|[[Wikipedia:{{{project}}}|{{{project}}}]] and}} the
Wikipedia Pro-female Ambassador Program{{#if:{{{term|}}}|  during the
{{{term}}} term}}}}}}
I noticed that Professor Diana Strassman, the founding editor of the
journal "Feminist Economics" is an Wikipedia editor (User:DStrassmann) and
runs Wikipedia Education Program Courses (although I don't see recent
contributions from her).
Co-editor of the journal is Professor Günseli Berik, she is also a
Wikipedia editor (User:BerikG) and also runs academic programs, perhaps she
would like to get involved.
Marie
We've got Wikipedia:Gendergap
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gendergap> that we could do
something with, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender
bias task force
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_bias_task_force>,
which has members but hasn't been active.
Sarah
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