Though I'm not seeing the connection between female editors and multilateral
tax havens (!), there are a couple of interesting points there to pick up
on.
1. Ask chapters to compete to nurture the greatest number of female
administrators
I do wonder if the 13% female participation rate is specific to just one or
a limited number of projects, if it's an average across all projects, or if
there is significant variation between projects.
I'm the first to point out that chapters (which are geographically oriented
and usually national) do not really represent the "editorial community" of
our projects, and I don't think there are any projects where more than 1-2%
of active editors are also active chapter members. However, new editor
recruitment and support might be one of the things that chapters should be
encouraged to do. This depends on whether or not the chapter members are
active and experienced Wiki(?)edians themselves, though.
5. Less javascript for mobile devices;
And not just mobile devices, less javascript period. And a lot fewer
templates. And a more organized "help" process.
3. Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a
focus on editor mentoring;
Well, no, let's *not* bring those back. But a stronger focus on new editor
mentoring, such as the Ambassador program currently in development, would be
positive.
As an aside, today Arthur Richards posted a link in the Wikitech mailing
list relating to how one open source community learned to thrive. Perhaps we
can draw some lessons from this as well.
<http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/open-source-community-simplified/>
Risker/Anne