On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:56 PM, KIZU Naoko <aphaia@gmail.com> wrote:

I think it's great to have such a campaign. Could we however add why
it should occur on March?

Regarding WikiX and its success we had a clear reason why it should
start on January 15. Since it's Wikipedia Day, it's been cerebrated by
the community as its creation day. This story is clear and goes easily
even for people who heard that first. Things with stories are more
memorable thanks to context.

So March - do we have such a clear story why it be on March? In Japan
females cerebrate March 3 - it's girls' day traditionally (for the
sake of gender neutrality I'd add that boys preserve May 5 as their
own) . I don't know if it goes globally and prefer to have a story
which is globally understood: a context globally going through.

Women on Wikipedia should be encouraged all the time: so it's okay to
happen on March without context - but I suppose if we could find a
story and context, it'll be more recognizable for more people.

Cheers,

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I know there have been a couple of threads discussing the idea of an
> outreach-to-women Edit Wikipedia Day/Week/Month.
>
> I'm curious to know if we all want to take a crack at it?
>
> We've been kicking it around at the Wikimedia Foundation, and although
> we're daunted by the timeline, we'd be willing to give it a shot. I
> feel like there's really good momentum building around this issue
> right now, and we should take advantage of it.
>
> I'm imagining something a bit like the 10th anniversary: a wiki page
> where we could publish a manifesto of some kind describing the
> project, and people could post their events/activities supporting it.
> I'm imagining events/activities could range from "I pledge to teach my
> sister how to edit Wikipedia on March 8," to "I will persuade at least
> six of my female colleagues to try editing, by posting to all my
> academic listservs," to "the French chapter will hold an edit-a-thon
> at the public library in Paris, and will specifically aim to recruit
> women to turn up, every weekend in March." You know what I mean: that
> kind of thing.
>
> Do we want to do this? If so, let's get a page started :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
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> FYI:
> I've done a reorganization of the gender gap page on Meta (including with a
> link to Sarah's new Women
> on Wikipedia Week page) to try and encourage more work in the vein of
> tenwiki.
> In addition to what's there, I was thinking we'd add maybe a research
> section or element that can describe the various questions answered or
> unanswered, as well as the data sets involved and their merits.
> Please edit away!
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