I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless limited itself to "people who were born female"; that's very much a type of exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even women-only) edit-a-thon, or from reaching out to women in a certain field (via linkedin, maybe?) to urge them to get editing. Those are both cool ideas, and I suspect you'd get a lot of support, both from the WMF and from the gendergap community in general, in setting such things up. NYC would be, I suspect, a particularly fertile ground for gendergap-specific meetups; there's enough of nearly every demographic around there to fill some seats for a moderately-sized edit-a-thon, and the WMNYC board appears willing to work with minority-focused groups..

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Neotarf <neotarf@gmail.com> wrote:

See also this article: "AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of African Descent" http://kreyolicious.com/afrocrowd/17531/

One of the drawbacks of GLAM is that people are just making a few edits, and leaving, rather than becoming long-term editors. There may be chances for followup here that we are missing. Is the wiki-world ready for "WomanCrowd: The Women's Wikipedia for People Who Were Born Female"? Or maybe more realistically, ways for women in a particular cluster of professions to network with other women in their field, not to mention professional men who are supportive enough of women to come to one of these events (and who also might just happen to control access to career advancement).

I have to say, though, that I totally support the idea of a Haitian Creole-language Wikipedia. This language barrier was a huge problem a few years ago, when there was an increased number of Haitians entering the U.S. after the earthquake in Haiti. The problem is the same with other creoles--instruction is usually given in one of the prestige languages--in this case French--rather than the individual's native or local village language, which makes communication and learning extremely difficult.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these groups explicitly, and in particular to representing different cultural identities in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic communities.

Thanks,
Pharos

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Neotarf" <neotarf@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course there was a very high proportion of African descent.

I think the point was actually to be extra inclusionary: to cover all of the above not just a subset when recruiting new editors. So potential recruits don't think but I'm not really {{label}} and exclude themselves.

I'm pretty sure others won't be excluded but these events will be *focused* on topics related to those groups and editors with some sort of a connection to Africa. To address biases similarly to women focused outreach but with a twist thrown in: adding a new language to Wikipedia too, they started already Garifuna Wikipedia on incubator.

https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab

-Jeremy

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