Laura Hale, 21/12/2011 21:55:
At the moment, this is to both inform the community
the state of female
participation on a leadership level, the state of women's participation
on WMF projects (the 9% number is meaningless unless properly
contextualised) and the state of women's related content by region. [...]
Beyond that, the purpose of the list is to create benchmarks for
chapters and communities with in the movement to see how they can
improve. If we get this information, six months, a year, two years down
the line, we can say: Look! We've improved the participation levels of
women at New Zealand based meet ups (and at the same time increased male
participation levels!). We have more women involved in editing articles
about popular Australian women's sports, about Australian literature and
about female Australian politicians. In this country, there was not a
single woman on the board but now they have one. In Bangladesh, they
sent their first woman to attend an international conference and she
came back and helped organise events in the country. [...]
I don't know how to find or provide some information useful for
benchmarking purposes: the only thing I'd consider important (and
measurable) is the total number of female contributors and chapter members.
Females are so important in Italian Wikimedia projects and chapter that
their role can't be measured and I had never thought of measuring or
increasing their /number/ in the board.
Anyway, I've added some stats and trivia I like on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Italy , I
hope they're somehow useful.
Nemo