Hi Laura,

Thanks for the reminding email. 

Perhaps it would be helpful if you could add some explanation why you are collecting this information, what you want to make clear. Because as I explained before to you privately (and I see nothing has changed) at least for the Netherlands the stats that have been put up are almost hilarious. Lots of percentages, but every Dutch person will be able to tell you that many of them are of no meaning (Ripuarian is not a language spoken at any significant level in the Netherlands, Zealandic is considered mainly a dialect and has 1 admin, of course there are no Dutch women in the enwiki arbcom, because to my best knowledge there are no Dutch people in there at all at this moment, and I would wonder why there are no Dutch female admins on the Portuguese Wikinews...) I am not sure if it is just me, but reading this page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Netherlands ) I would almost think that this is a parody of something - I can't tell if it is the same in other countries. 

I am sure your intentions are good though, so perhaps it would be helpful to state somewhere what kind of information you're looking for that is *really* informative, and get rid of the non-relevant parts? I would say that the semi-automated adding of information isn't exactly helpful in at least the Dutch case - again, I can't vouch for other countries. Some information *is* interesting (interest ratios on Facebook or other external websites) and it would be a waste if that gets discarded because of the irrelevance of the rest of the page. 

Best regards,

Lodewijk

No dia 1 de Fevereiro de 2012 01:44, Laura Hale <laura@fanhistory.com> escreveu:
Hi,

We're again asking people to help contribute to improving the national perspective on the involvement of women in their country. :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_-_women_perspective_by_country has a list of all the countries we have started pages about.  These articles are far from complete and need extensive work to give a more accurate picture. :)  At WikiWomenCamp, we plan to have all these perspectives published in a book, with a copy being given to a chapter or national representative from any country that substantially contributes to documenting the work in their country. If you don't send a representative, we'll see about sending your chapter a copy or a national representative in the post.

For the sake of some level of consistency, it would be great to have the following ten questions answered for each country:

1.  Is there a national chapter?  If yes, what is the current and historical representation of women on the country's board?
2.  Has the chapter given out grants to its members or been the recipient of grants from the Wikimedia Foundaton?  If yes, how many women were involved in these grants, in what roles and did the grants support women in terms of leadership, participation or content creation?
3.  Are there meetups and conferences in the country?  Are women involved in organizing them and do they attend these gatherings?
4.  Are there pictures of women from the country involved with WMF projects and at WMF related events?  Can you upload them and include them on the perspective page?
5.  What is the state women's related content from your country on Wikipedia?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on Wikipedia?
6.  What is the state women's related content from your country on Commons ?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on Commons?
7.  What is the state women's related content from your country on Wikinews ?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on Wikinews?
8.  What is the state women's related content from your country on Wikibooks ?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on Wikibooks?
9.  What is the state women's related content from your country on Wikiversity ?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on Wikiversity?
10.  What is the state women's related content from your country on other WMF projeects ?  What are female participation levels in your country as contributors and in leadership roles on  other WMF projeects ?


These questions are in no particular order. :)  Please help. :) 

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