Gendergap April 2014

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Re: [Gendergap] Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons - May 2014
by taranet 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I'm a new member of this mailing list. I set an Edit-a-thon event in my home city, Tehran, Iran. I had in mind arranging a wikipedia workshop for women and found this event a suitable starting point. Taranet

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Blogger and Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz died while rock-climbing
by Jane Darnell 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

This is to inform you that one of the contributors to this list who spent a lot of time working on the Gendergap issue and ways to solve it, has died in a rock-climbing accident. http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/blog/adrianne-wadewitz/

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Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons - May 2014
by Sarah Stierch 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I have created the event page for the Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons that will be taking place around the world in May. This event is a coordinated project of HASTAC and FemTech. We hope you'll plan an event - no matter how big or small - and participate. Please spread the word and add your event listing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wadewitz_Tribute_Edit-a-thons Thank you, Sarah -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com

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How to Acknowledge an all-male panel.
by Maximilian Klein 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello Gender Gap, With some collaborators, I submitted this panel for Wikimania 2014 "Reform of citation structure for all Wikimedia project" [1]. Despite my best efforts (and continuing efforts), I couldn't find any non-men to be on the panel. I asked each of the potential panelists if they knew any other qualified speakers (not specifically women, just other people), asked my old colleagues, put a call out on social media. But it just ended up being all-men. Is it desirable to write something to the effect of "we are cognizant this is an all-male panel, and would like to change the underlying factors" as a preamble to the submissions? And if so, what is the right way? Best, [1] http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Reform_of_citation_stru… Max Klein http://notconfusing.com/

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Gender Gap/Systemtic bias related Wikimania submissions
by Sarah Stierch 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

I'm on the program committee, so every year I make a list of submissions that have been submitted to Wikimania related to gender gap/systemic bias. Be sure to add your interest in attending at the end of the submissions that interest you. - *"Creative Ways to Alienate Women: A How-To Guide for Wikipedians"*(tongue in cheek!): https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Creative_Ways_to_Alien… - *Diversity in the wikiHow Community *- https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Diversity_in_the_wikiH… - *Engaging Minorities on the Wikimedia projects: Easier said than done?* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Engaging_minorities_on… - *Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia -* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Guerrilla_Skepticism_o… - *INternet Skills and the Gender Gap -* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Internet_skills_and_th… - *Systemic Bias Workshop Development *- https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Systemic_Bias_Workshop… - *The 3W phenomenon - Web - Women - Wikipedia *- https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_%223W%22_phenomeno… - *What male Wikipedians can do to help fix the gender gap* - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/What_male_Wikipedians_… - *Where's the T in Wikimedia Diversity -* https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Where%27s_the_T_in_Wik… - *Wikimedia LGBT: Past, Present, and Future? * https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_LGBT:_Past,_… - *Women on Wikipedia* - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Women_on_Wikipedia - *Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt and Jordan: closing the gender gap and growing contributors in Arabic Wikipedia*: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_Education_Pr… - *Challenges supporting indigenous peoples' participation in Wikipedia in the Asia Pacific* - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Challenges_supporting_… - *Disability: rights, access, and awareness* - https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Disability:_rights,_ac… - *Gender and Beyond: Building DIversity in the Digital Space*: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Gender_and_Beyond:_Bui… - *Diversity Workshop: Gender gap strategy into action*: https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Diversity_Workshop:_Ge… -- Sarah Stierch ----- Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com

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Joining list, hope to help
by Derric Atzrott 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hello all, I'm not sure if it is proper to introduce yourself upon joining this list, so I thought I would. My name is Derric Atzrott. I'm an editor on the English Wikipedia and feel that the gender gap on Wikipedia, and honestly in many places in general, is problematic and something needs to be done about it. I do a lot of informal outreach, though in the past month or two I've begun trying to do a bit more formal outreach, and have, since I realized there was a problem, tried to place an emphasis on getting females to become editors. The news of the deaths of both Andrianne and Cynthia is heart breaking. While I didn't know either of them it always pains me to hear about members of our community dying. The death of both of them, who I understand were active on this list, has prompted me to try to step up my efforts as well, which is why I have joined this list. Honestly, there is a good chance to I'll mostly just lurk on this list like I do wikitech-l and libraries, but if I see anything I can help with I'll do my best to do so, and if any of you know of anything I can help with, please ask. Sorry if this email is inappropriate for the list. Thank you, Derric Atzrott

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (Cindamuse)
by Jane Darnell 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Forwarding from the Wikimedia list, Cynthia was a contributor to this list and very active in Gendergap issues on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:07:43 +0200 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (Cindamuse) To: wikimediaannounce-l <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> It is with great regret that we need to confirm that Cynthia Ashley-Nelson (User:Cindamuse, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cindamuse ) passed away on Friday, April 11. Our thoughts are with Cindy’s family, friends and the Wikimedia community. Her next of kin have been informed prior to releasing this announcement. Cindy was elected vice-chair of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee on April 10, 2014. She had traveled to Berlin in order to attend the Affiliations Committee’s annual meeting during the international Wikimedia Conference. Both a long-time Wikipedia editor and an expert in organizational development with a professional background of 25 years, she devoted her time, passion and vast expertise to contribute in numerous ways to the free knowledge movement. Cindy was deeply committed to supporting the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Education Program and to tackling the gender gap issue on Wikipedia. In the short time since January that Cindy has been with us in the Affiliations Committee, we have come to value her thoughts, passion and refreshing ideas. She was working very enthusiastically with us, and we are all saddened that we won’t have the chance to learn from all of her ideas, insights and experiences. The months we shared proved her to be a very valuable and engaged member of the committee, which led to her election as AffCom vice-chair. We are sad beyond words and so is everyone who came to Berlin to participate in the Wikimedia Conference. Her passing is a great loss for everyone in the Wikimedia movement. This morning all the conference attendees gathered together to grieve and talk about the loss of Cindy. We decided that all of us at the Wikimedia Conference could choose to continue the conversations about the future of the movement Cindy cared so much about, as well as spending our time here to remember and celebrate her. She will be greatly missed. You can share your condolences and memories of Cynthia on her user talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cindamuse ). On behalf of the whole Affiliations Committee, and the other community members gathered here in Berlin: Carlos Colina, Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee Bence Damokos, Outgoing chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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WMF plans for "an executable gender gap strategy"
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

FYI: «Increase support to challenging the gender gap to at least 1.5 percent of total grants spending, and host at least two diversity events in order to build out an executable gender gap strategy (baseline: 2013-14 YTD grants to gender gap issues ~1 percent; current year’s target: 1 percent).» <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim…> Nemo

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Asking for volunteers to help assess the WMF FDC Proposal.
by Sydney Poore 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hello, I want to encourage people on this mailing list to volunteer to assess the Wikimedia Foundation's draft of the annual plan that is now in the review phase with the Fund Dissemination Committee. I've included a forwarded email from Sue Gardner that gives an overview of the this year's process for drafting the WMF annual plan. In addition to the general community review, the Fund Dissemination Committee is looking for members of the community to do a through assess of all or part of the draft WMF proposal that is submitted on Meta as part of Round 2 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim… As an experiment we are having a team of people do a review of the WMF proposal that is similar to the Staff Assessment that is done by the WMF staff that support the FDC. We would like to include people from the community at large as well as people in both large and small WMF chapters, and thematic organizations. In addition to a general call for help, we will be directly asking people to help. If you know of anyone who would be a good fit for this work, or would like to help yourself, let me know. We need to get moving on this work right away, so send me names by next Monday April 14. Additionally, the talk pages of all Round 2 proposals are available for comments. The organizations writing the proposals spend a good bit of time writing them, and appreciate comments about them from the community. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2 Warm regards, Sydney Poore User:FloNight Member of FDC ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:05 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMF FDC Proposal: we invite your participation To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks, The purpose of this note is to remind you that the WMF will be participating in the FDC Process Round 2, which begins tomorrow. I'd like to invite you to comment on the plan-in-progress, which will be at this URL within about 24 hours: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim… The WMF welcomes your thoughts on the draft plan. Of course you're free to ask questions and make comments on whatever aspects of it interest you, but we'd probably find high-level input the most useful. Does it seem to you that the WMF's 2014-15 planning is generally on the right track? Do you believe the four "crucial initiatives" as described in the draft are where the WMF should be focusing its energy? What do you think about our plans WRT the technical infrastructure, our mobile work, editor engagement, and non-technical movement support? Bearing in mind that we're an organization focused fairly narrowly on product & engineering and on grantmaking, is there anything really significant that you see as missing from the draft? Are we missing any important risks to the organization or to the movement overall? Please don't reply here, because your input might get missed by the people who should see it. Please reply on meta, at the link above. And a few explanatory caveats: First, it's important to know that the plan, at this point, is draft. That's new. Last year the WMF submitted material after it had been approved by the WMF Board and after the fiscal year had begun. That was an okay first step to getting input from community members, but obviously the input will have more impact if we get it before the plan's locked down. That's why this year we're submitting a draft version of the WMF plan, rather than a final version. We've deliberately synched up the timing of the WMF planning and FDC review processes such that the community/FDC input will come in during April and early May, which is exactly when the plan is being actively refined and revised on a near-daily basis by the team responsible for it (primarily the C-level people, and also the people who work in their departments).The benefit of this timing is that community/FDC input can easily be incorporated into our thinking while we're actively discussing and rethinking and revising internally at the WMF. The drawback is it means you'll be reviewing material that is still a work-in-progress, and so you may find mistakes. The plan may also be a little confusing, which is partly because it's still in-progress, and also partly because we are merging this year the original WMF-Board-only format with the FDC proposal requirements. It'll be a little clunky: we ask you to bear with us as we work out the kinks. Second. You'll need to bear with us if we seem a little slow or unresponsive during the discussions. It's a busy time for the WMF: we're currently actively recruiting my successor as ED, which means Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I are far busier than we normally would be. And, the WMF will be working through roles-and-responsibilities for the FDC process in real time during the discussion period, which means questions may languish for a while before we figure out internally who's supposed to answer them. It might also be worth me saying that we won't have unlimited time for the process, and we're hoping it will be broadly participatory rather than being dominated by a small number of people. That means that if any particular person has lots of questions and follow-ups, we may eventually be unable to keep responding. If that happens to you, please don't be insulted -- it won't be personal. Also, if questions are asked and you know the answers (or can link to answers or more information) please feel free to help each other as well: you don't need to wait for us. Third. You should know -- the WMF is not asking the FDC to recommend a dollar allocation for the WMF to the WMF Board for approval. Partly that's because from a timing perspective there's no good way to make it work. The WMF Board needs to approve the plan by 1 July 2014 when the new fiscal year begins, and the FDC input is released 1 June. That month-long window doesn't leave sufficient time for the WMF to adequately incorporate a dollar amount recommendation from the FDC into our cycle, particularly given that the window needs to also include WMF Board approval. Ultimately, I think it's fine that the WMF Board would approve a dollar amount from the WMF rather than the FDC: I think the most important function the FDC can play here is to help the WMF to evaluate and assess the strength of the plan overall. And so, I've asked the FDC to i) provide input on the plan on the WMF's proposal page during the community review period (the month of April), ii) give the WMF formal feedback (reinforcement, support, suggestions, concerns) on 8 May, and iii) if it chooses to, give a more full and detailed assessment of the WMF plan as part of its overall package of recommendations on 1 June. Any June assessment will not be received in time to significantly influence the plan upon which the Board votes, but we would take it under advisement as the year plays out. This is perhaps not ideal but there is no perfect solution, and I think it's a step forward from last year, because it'll mean the WMF gets community and FDC input at the point in the process when it will be most influential. I am really pleased to have the WMF participating for the first time with its full draft plan in the FDC process. The draft will be posted within the next 24 hours, and your input is welcome from then until 30 April. We look forward to hearing what you think. Thanks, Sue _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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[Blog]: [Huffington Post U.K] : An interview with Emily Temple-Wood
by Netha Hussain 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Dear all, Here is a blog post interviewing Emily Temple-Wood, the co-founder of Wikiproject: Women Scientists<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>. Congratulations, Emily! http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-… - Netha Countering the Systemic Bias on Wikipedia : An Interview With Emily Temple-Wood Posted: 01/04/2014 14:28<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/countering-the-systemic-bias-…> Follow Wikipedia <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia/>, United States<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/united-states/> , Editing <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/editing/>, Gender Gaps<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gender-gaps/> , Interview <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/interview/>, Systemic Bias<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/systemic-bias/> , Woman <http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/woman/>, UK Tech News<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech> *GET UK TECH NEWSLETTERS:* SUBSCRIBE "I love to collect information, and I love that I get to share that information with the world," says Emily Temple-Wood, a veteran editor on English Wikipedia. Emily, who likes reading encyclopedias from cover-to-cover, finds writing on Wikipedia a transition from being a consumer to a creator of knowledge. Her first attempt at writing on Wikipedia was in 2005, when she was 10 years old. She wrote a page about her little sister saying that she was a "stupid butthead", which got removed from Wikipedia instantly. As she grew older, she knew that she could do more productive things on Wikipedia. In 2007, when Emily Temple-Wood created an account on Wikipedia, she was just 12 years old. She started off by categorizing and cleaning up existing wikipedia articles. Eventually, she found it and useful to contribute knowledge to Wikipedia. Her first interest was endangered languages. She created several articles related to endangered languages and became dedicated to Wikipedia. Emily, now 19, has written over 200 articles on Wikipedia. Lately, she has been writing about rare genetic diseases, Islamic history and mythology. Her pet project is Wikiproject: Women scientists<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_scientists>, an initiative to create and expand articles about women scientists. "WikiProject Women Scientists is growing into a nice space for contributing to this less-covered area and we are gaining some active participants, so that is great! I'm so glad to be a part of something that is making a real difference on Wikipedia," she says. She is also an administrator on Wikipedia, a trusted editor who has been granted the technical ability to perform special actions on English Wikipedia. [image: 2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_2013__User_Keilana.JPG]<http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-03-31-800pxGLAM_Wiki_Boot_Camp_DC_201…> Emily is an undergraduate student at the Loyola University in Chicago, majoring in molecular biology with additional two minors : Arabic and Islamic world studies. She aspires to go to graduate school and get an MD/ PhD in medicine to fulfil her dream of becoming research physician. She has basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean and French and wants to be a fluent speaker of these three languages someday. She is undergoing training as an emergency medical technician along with her undergraduate studies. Because of the many real-life commitments, Emily is not being able to spend as much time for writing articles as she wants. "First of all, I schedule time to edit, either with workshops or with friends. Editing with friends makes it a lot easier to make the time for it. I also edit as I read. Like many of us, I use Wikipedia every day to look up facts and whenever I see something that needs to be fixed, I do it. Treating my editing as a social endeavor has been really helpful and definitely motivates me to contribute more, and I think that's my message to fellow women. Have fun together while editing - enjoy food and drink and socialize! Some people take Wikipedia too seriously and make it an anti-social space a lot of the time, so you can counter that by enjoying wiki-socialization in real life and being serious online.", says Emily when asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of real-life and online volunteering. She is also a Individual Engagement Grantee<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> of the Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia. In her role as a grantee, she is aiming to create a new model for bringing women into the Wikimedia movement and creating more content to fill the coverage gap with topics related to women, especially biographies of women. She is trying to change the gender situation on English Wikipedia where only around 10-25 percent of all contributors are women. She is also looking forward to create a best practice kit for running workshops on systemic bias. Systemic bias is an insidious problem on Wikipedia, where women, people of color, and non-Western topics are severely underrepresented. She thinks that her biggest contribution to the Wikipedia community has been helping to bring awareness about the systemic bias problem. She has attended three international conferences, where she presented her learnings and experiences in working with Wikipedia. She finds it exciting to get to travel around the world and meet amazing Wikipedians from different language communities. Emily thinks that "women's voices are so important in this [Wikipedia] community and [women] need to speak up, especially because there are so few women participating in the movement". She asks women "to trust in their own competence and jump in, and don't take criticism too hard," to be a successful writer on Wikipedia. You can view Emily's userpage on Wikipedia here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana>. *Copyright notes: Image by Fuzheado (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)>], via Wikimedia Commons* *Follow Netha Hussain on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nethahussain <http://www.twitter.com/nethahussain>* FOLLOW UK TECH -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com <http://nethahussain.blogspot.com>swethaambari.wordpress.com <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*

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