&quot;Men of course would be allowed to help and<br>
learn, but doubtless there would be a low tolerance for questionable and<br>
trolling behavior.&quot;<br>How nice of you to tolerate our barbarianism.<br><br>Again, this comes down to &quot;do we want to divide the community&quot;? If it&#39;s behavioural issues within the community, the behaviour of the community has to change. Dissecting it will only cause greater problems further down the line.<br>
<br>I want to again take this opportunity to emphasise that <i>we don&#39;t know why so few women edit compared to men</i>. Is there any chance we could gather some statistically reliable data first, and come up with ideas on how to fix the (currently baseless) presuppositions later?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:49 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:carolmooredc@verizon.net">carolmooredc@verizon.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
IDEA - start WIKIPROJECT in all languages called: Womens Cafe (or<br>
something sociable and helpful sounding) as an outreach, education and<br>
support network<br>
<br>
There are several feminism wikiprojects fr:Projet:Femmes -<br>
pl:Wikiprojekt:Gender Studies - sv:Wikipedia:Projekt kvinnor -<br>
es:Wikiproyecto:Feminismo - En. Wikiproject:Feminism There also is a<br>
proposal for WomensHistory. However, many women are not interested in<br>
editing on womens topics and/or want more general education and<br>
support.  (And some of course steer away from the word feminism, though<br>
this project hopefully would complement, not compete with any<br>
wikiprojects feminism.) Men of course would be allowed to help and<br>
learn, but doubtless there would be a low tolerance for questionable and<br>
trolling behavior.<br>
<br>
Each project could link to some of  the helpful things other projects do:<br>
<br>
*Quick help box like<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism</a><br>
<br>
*List of relevant articles about women in wikipedia, including some<br>
gender gap ones, so they can understand context.<br>
<br>
*An articles issues page to list articles that whose subject women might<br>
be more interested in, where women can ask for help on where to go when<br>
having problems in articles, or even can list articles where women feel<br>
they are being hassled and would like uninvolved editors&#39; (especially<br>
womens&#39;) opinion.<br>
<br>
*Links to training videos that show women how to edit on wikipedia and<br>
quickly deal with issues.<br>
<br>
*Other relevant links, material, pages, resources, etc.<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t want to start one in En. WIkipedia, but would certainly join and<br>
help out.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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