[Gendergap] Awesomeness: The amount of female volunteer leadership in the Wikimedia Movement

[Laura Hale]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Laura Hale, 20/12/2011 22:02:
> > If you have the time and knowledge, it would be fantastic if you could
> > help fill in the details about your own county: What are historical
> > membership totals in your home chapter?  What has the historical female
> > presence on your chapter's board been?
>
> What do you want to know, exactly? Average ratio of female founders,
> members and board members and female board members roles, across all years?
>
>
We want everything related to women's involvement with Wikimedia projects
in the region. :)  This includes, but is not limited to:

* Women who are currently on a chapter's board in a country or region.  The
history of women on those boards.
* Women who are currently employe-ed by a chapter.  The history of women
being employed by the board.
* The number of female members in a chapter.  Historical numbers for female
numbers.
* Current and past initiatives taken by a chapter or inside a country or
region related to women.
* Current and past initiatives taken by a chapter or inside a country or
region that were started by, run by or largely supported by female
volunteers.
* Female participation at meetups organised in a region.  Percentage of the
participants that were female.
* Female topics on Wikipedian, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary,
Wikiversity, Wikisource that are covered really well or covered not so well.
* The roles of women from a country on projects like Wikipedia,
Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Meta, Outreach, Mediawiki.  This includes project
coordinators, arbcoms, administrators, oversighters, etc.  Historical data
regarding female participation from your country related to that.
(Example: Military History on English Wikipedia has one female coordinator,
a woman from Canada.)
* Topics that female contributors are active around from a country.  Areas
where women are actually editing from a country.
* International conferences related to Wikimedia Foundation that women from
a country have attended and their level of participation.at those events.

For all the negative talk about the gender gap, there are some truly
fantastic women around the world doing really important work and helping to
push ahead with project goals.  There are areas to work on, but it is worth
noting where we excel and areas where, by nation, we need work.  One of the
best pieces of feedback we have received since we publicly announced this
conference was that people were unaware of the amount of female leadership
coming out of Asia and South America: It was a big surprise to people. :)

Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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