Thanks Steven and Ryan for posting this. I've been thinking a lot about Gender Gap and women's issues in Wikipedia of the past week, thanks to my experience at Wikimania. Speaking with women who attended from throughout the world it was quite clear that outreach is in demand to address the desires expressed by WMF's five-year strategic. I'd like to use this as a platform just to babble a bit about my thoughts, if you all don't mind. ;) They mention Taniguchi's research about women volunteering more than men - it is true - working in the museum industry it's even more so. At Wikimania, fellow female-Wikimedian Lori Byrd Phillips (user:LoriLee) presented about E-Volunteers, a great concept that will provide a great basis for encouraging "volunteerism" over "editing" for women. (You can read more here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cyipKr7-uucWNFb0ITgXBzNh_pzQOnb…US>.) I like the idea of promoting Wikipedia as needing "volunteers," something that has been working wonders for non-profits for years, but, obviously is not serving the open source community as it could be. Instead of having events where we "teach women how to edit" we can teach people how to "volunteer for Wikimedia". Just seeing the charge with the numbers stating how many of what gender are editing what (441 female editors vs. 3,673 male editors regarding people) is hard for me to read. :( *ON THAT NOTE* On that note, I'd like to ask the list as whole - do you feel that this survey, and recent survey/reports from WMF, have supplied us with enough data in order to proceed with planning an appropriate outreach movement within Wikiimedia hopefully sponsored by WMF? (This of course will lead to more discoveries, but would focus more on outreach over statistical examination.) -Sarah -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation<http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/