Hey all, check out Wikisource's main page right now. :-) There are several users whose gender I don't know, but one of Wikisource's currently most active editors, and an administrator, is kathleen.wright5. One of its bureaucrats and village elders is also a woman, BirgitteSB. Inspired by some of the uploads from the National Archives, we recently created a women's suffrage portal (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women%27s_suffrage), which is slightly misnamed, because a few other documents from related non-suffrage political activism have been since added.

I think several of the sister projects are actually places where it would be easier for women to thrive than the English Wikipedia, especially Wikisource and Wikiquote. These are small communities that have the luxury of nurturing newcomers (and lack the culture of competitive patrolling which puts off newbies), have less bureaucracy, and have less conflict. We can only speculate, but I think a main reason that there is a gender gap on such other projects is just because most projects live in Wikipedia's shadow and new editors only find them through becoming Wikipedia contributors, and those demographics carry over.

Dominic

On 9/15/11 9:17 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only woman who ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even think there is much of anything related to women's history on Wikisource...

We were discussing in #wikimedia-gendergap a few days ago about the need for more featured images of women and related subjects on Commons. I kept rolling my eyes everytime I saw the ATV that was a featured image the other day.

I'm actually developing a wikipage that will showcase a collection of topics that need expansion, watching, clean up, etc, and/or photos for English Wikipedia, which I naturally assume will be the same for other languages. Once it's a little fleshed out we can see if it's useful in any way. I think it's interesting just to see what we're lacking on...on top of the 1009232 other things I'm doing...

-Sarah

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:
Looking at my wikiquotes talk page for the first time in a while, I was reminded that is another area women's contributions may not be taken as seriously.

Example: the deletion in 2009 of poet Marcella Boccia's quotes from English wikipedia after her article had been deleted from En wikipedia.

Actually, I just checked and it's not in the Italian wikipedia version either.  Despite http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1 notability in Italian I noted at time of deletion discussion.

So let's not forget Wikiquote!!





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