As I'm imagining this right now, it would be public. It would be open to those who've identified as women to edit, and to others to read. I suppose it might touch upon content issues, but those would more likely go to the project and article talk pages for specific subjects and topics.

What its focus would be at first would be to recruit more women. To mentor. To discuss policies, guidelines, essays of interest to women. Since, per WP:PROJ, a project has no special rights or privileges, it can't impose anything on articles, policies, etc. It would be a place where women could talk without men - even well-intentioned men - jumping in and commandeering or derailing the discussions. It could be held to a high standard of civility - or even simply to the published civility policy that is overlooked elsewhere on the project.


Lightbreather

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:

On 31 December 2014 at 11:18, LB <lightbreather2@gmail.com> wrote:
I can imagine the complaints and hurdles. The discussion is it possible? Could it work?

To your specific questions, if there's no page-protection option, can there be? If it's absolutely impossible, then the moderators would have to keep an eye on those things. Also, I think there would be parts of the project that would be vehemently opposed, but others who wouldn't care one way or another, and some who would welcome such a space with open arms.

I don't know about EEML. I will read that.

 
 
The EEML (Eastern European Mailing List) was an invitation-only mailing list populated by a group of editors who supported each other in content contributions, deletion discussions, and other on-wiki activities related generally to the Eastern European region of the world (including articles on the  history, economics, politics,  notable persons, geography, etc. of the region).  The mailing list was non-public.  Almost all participants on the list were very significantly sanctioned (including some permanent bans, some topic bans, and a desysop) because of the attempt to manage content in a non-transparent way, in addition to the entire canvassing aspect. 
 
There was once a Wikichix mailing list, moderated and very similar to the one described by Lightbreather.  It died a slow death several years ago because, essentially, nobody really had much to say there, absent the ability to discuss actual content.
 
Risker/Anne

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