The newly developing Women's History WikiProject on enWP has plans for a related portal at some point as well.
Aleta
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case < dancase@frontiernet.net> wrote:
IDEA - start WIKIPROJECT in all languages called: Womens Cafe (or something sociable and helpful sounding) as an outreach, education and support network
Along this line, may I direct the list's attention to perhaps an even better way, using an underutilized aspect of Wikipedia, that might be a useful place to bring new female editors into the community: A portal.
We have a whole portal namespace, portals devoted to many, many topics (including portals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Portal)), a time portal, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Time) and featured portals. One of those latter is, in fact, the feminism portal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Feminism).
Most of these mimic the main page, with a topic-area focus. I suppose a user could, if desired, bookmark a preferred portal in their browser (although I think most of us like to check in to the main page because everyone else does).
But, I ask, do they necessarily have to? Could we design a portal or portals for outreach purposes? What would a portal meant to be a welcome center for new editors, or women editors, look like? Could we find different ways of doing a portal that would incorporate the things we're talking about here?
Daniel Case
Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap