<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hey folks,<br><br>I know there have been a couple of threads discussing the idea of an<br>outreach-to-women Edit Wikipedia Day/Week/Month.<br><br>I'm curious to know if we all want to take a crack at it?<br><br>We've been kicking it around at the Wikimedia Foundation, and although<br>we're daunted by the timeline, we'd be willing to give it a shot. I<br>feel like there's really good momentum building around this issue<br>right now, and we should take advantage of it.<br><br>I'm imagining something a bit like the 10th anniversary: a wiki page<br>where we could publish a manifesto of some kind describing the<br>project, and people could post their events/activities supporting it.<br>I'm imagining events/activities could range from "I pledge to teach my<br>sister how to edit Wikipedia on March 8," to "I will persuade at least<br>six of my female colleagues to try editing, by posting to all my<br>academic listservs," to "the French chapter will hold an edit-a-thon<br>at the public library in Paris, and will specifically aim to recruit<br>women to turn up, every weekend in March." You know what I mean: that<br>kind of thing.<br><br>Do we want to do this? If so, let's get a page started :-)<br><br>Thanks,<br>Sue<br><br><br>Sue Gardner.<br>Executive Director<br>Wikimedia Foundation<br><br>415 839 6885 office<br>415 816 9967 cell<br><br>Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in<br>the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!<br><br><a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gendergap mailing list<br>Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>FYI:</div><div><br></div><div>I've done a reorganization of the gender gap page on Meta (including with a link to Sarah's new Women</div>on Wikipedia Week page) to try and encourage more work in the vein of tenwiki. <div><br></div><div>In addition to what's there, I was thinking we'd add maybe a research section or element that can describe the various questions answered or unanswered, as well as the data sets involved and their merits.</div><div><br></div><div>Please edit away!<br><div><div><br><div>
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