Along with any PR it might be a good idea to provide a link to the Facebook group, thislist or a portal where new women editors can give feedback on their experience ofediting. If new editors run into problems, it would be good to hear about these problems. Then wecan either investigate and do what's necessary to prevent other new editors having thesame problems, or at least explain why the problems arose and how they can be minimised. Andreas
--- On Sat, 19/2/11, Susan Spencer susan.spencer@gmail.com wrote:From: Susan Spencer susan.spencer@gmail.com
The historical reasons for the lower percentage
of women in science and technology are mostly the same reasons women aren't participating on Wikipedia. There will be a few differences, but on the whole moving forward is just as important as studying why. The studying why
is very expensive, and has been going on for decades. Let's just get on with it, and put out the PR that we are celebrating and requesting women's participation as experts on the Wikipedia site.
- Susan