Re: [Gendergap] Women's portal?

Along this line, may I direct the list's attention to perhaps an even better way, using an underutilized aspect of Wikipedia, that might be a useful place to bring new female editors into the community: A portal. We have a whole portal namespace, portals devoted to many, many topics (including portals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Portal)), a time portal, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Time) and featured portals. One of those latter is, in fact, the feminism portal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Feminism). Most of these mimic the main page, with a topic-area focus. I suppose a user could, if desired, bookmark a preferred portal in their browser (although I think most of us like to check in to the main page because everyone else does). But, I ask, do they necessarily have to? Could we design a portal or portals for outreach purposes? What would a portal meant to be a welcome center for new editors, or women editors, look like? Could we find different ways of doing a portal that would incorporate the things we're talking about here? Daniel Case _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap