Very cool! Good luck to you. Just a quick response to the first question:

I definitely think it's doable to get 5 editors to stay on for 5 months. The evaluation team should be able to help you with tools and guides to measure this.

My advice is to use the person-to-person method. That is, you invite a few female friends. Some will find it interesting. Make sure that it's a friendly space they come to. And some will come back. If you're a few regular people doing this, 5 should be on the low side for the Netherlands. We have about done it in Sweden without much effort, and with a little effort we could make it 10 (it's just been a busy time for me and a few others in the regular group).




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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:43:58 +0100
From: jane023@gmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

Hi Lennart and others,

We had a short meeting yesterday in Utrecht to discuss the Gendergap and also our plans for the upcoming Art & Feminism weekend of 7 & 8 March. Wikimedia Netherlands will co-host an edit-a-thon at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum and we also plan to host an international writing challenge lasting the entire weekend, directed at experienced "challenge writers". Since WMNL has also set aside some funding for Gendergap this year, we were also talking about other plans. One thing that we decided to do is to set aside one "Wiki-Saturday" per month for the Gendergap in all of its Wiki(p/m)edia aspects, but with the emphasis on the social side of things as an in-person meetup. We will be announcing the "Saturday meetups" in the Stedelijk venue.

Based on our meeting, I have done some searching around and have the following questions:

1) I was wondering if anyone had any measurable outcomes for such an investment of time and funds? We tentatively had a year-target of attracting 5 new women editors that remain active for at least 5 months. I have doubts whether this is measurable or even realistic.

Thoughts anyone?

2) I noticed that though we seem to have lots of women artists on Wikipedia, we are still missing articles about their artworks or  list articles of their artworks. In a category on the English Wikipedia for "Lists of works of art" I noted an odd mish-mash of lists which include lists of works by 66 men and only 4 women (I just created the list for Judith Leyster and hope to make list articles for two more Dutch women artists before March). Would anyone here be interested in building a list of their favorite female artist? This will be a nice-to-have for 7&8 March writers browsing for something to write about, as most museums have works by women in the collections, but they are just not on show. If a work is in one of the national museums it is encyclopedic enough to write about.

Thanks in advance!

Jane

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson <l_guldbrandsson@hotmail.com> wrote:

My draft is now up at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Regular_editathons_in_Sweden_about_women_and_literature

Anyone who wants to help with grammar and other language stuff (English is my second language after all), feel free. Your help is appreciated.


Best wishes,

Lennart Guldbrandsson

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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 08:17:27 -0800
From: rosiestep.wiki@gmail.com
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature

Big smile on my face... I love the idea of regular editathons. I've never been to a knitting/quilting circle but I imagine a group of women editing Wikipedia would have a similar look and feel. Piggy-backing on the WMDC "salons" might be a way forward as facilitating an "editathon" requires quite a bit of the facilitator, while a regularly scheduled editing-circle or editing-salon wouldn't require a facilitator at all.  I think that would be easier to sustain and replicate.

-Rosie

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