On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:22, Sandra ordonez sandratordonez@gmail.com wrote:
- Lets create a manifesto together: Why? Because it will allow us to create
together a certain description of the type of culture we want this group to embrace, and provide a more cohesive unity that unfortunately is some times hard to do non-verbally through internet based interaction.
Sandra, I love the idea of creating a manifesto, or statement of aims.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 15:05, Sandra sandratordonez@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah!!!! Why don't we start thinking about what we want in our manifesto and around Friday we can start wiki-ing it up!!
Just thinking out loud. We want to:
*create an editing environment in which women in all the different language Wikipedias feel safe and valued as equal participants; *encourage more women to become editors through outreach; *explore the ways in which women editors might have a different perspective or different needs, and find ways to ensure that these are expressed and valued; *encourage more women to stand for positions of responsibility (e.g., adminship, bureaucratship, mediation committee, arbitration committee, board of trustees); *encourage the Foundation to support or engage in research into the editing experiences of women on Wikipedia, including research to determine what percentage of editors are women, rather than relying on women self-identifying in their preferences; *improve article-space coverage of women, women's issues and perspectives, and women's history.
Sarah