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