I think a version of Marie's idea for an "umbrella" to help with diversity-related articles might be quite useful. A number of experienced editors have been trying to do this on an adhoc basis, but it's hard to scale.

Perhaps it would make sense to revive WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias, or reformulate something like WikiProject Diversity. I can see the point that a typical wikiproject oriented around a particular subject area (rather than to fostering diversity in general) might be a somewhat limiting definition.

Dr Strassman is actually chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation, serving the education program in the US and Canada (I am another one of the board members). Certainly the education program model of "ambassadors" is something that can be built on.

Thanks,

Pharos

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Sarah <slimvirgin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Marie Earley <eiryel@hotmail.com> wrote:

A subpage in an existing project would be one idea but please not the Feminism project. I was invited to it very early on by well meaning editors as a place for such discussions but found sex-positive feminists who think female porn stars are the definition of female empowerment.

Gender Studies is fine, but how about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Discrimination

Perhaps in the short-term the use of the following templates could be extended, or similar templates developed to cover identified articles, so editors work on draft changes on their user page, they are checked by gender-friendly ambassadors who are also have specialist knowledge in the area that the article covers. It would be less about taking on individual editors and their behaviour, and more about saying, "actually a decision has been made to put this article under an umbrella."
* Template:WAP assignment
* Template:Educational assignment
* Template:Course assignment

Example template code:

{{main other||{{tmbox| image = [[File:Male_and_female_sign.svg|50px]]| style = text-align:center;| text = This article {{#if:{{{ended|}}}| {{#switch:{{{ended|}}}|NO|N|n|False|false|no=is|#default=was}}|is}} the subject of gender related affirmative action {{#if:{{{university|}}}|at {{{university}}}}} supported by {{#if:{{{project|}}}|[[Wikipedia:{{{project}}}|{{{project}}}]] and}} the Wikipedia Pro-female Ambassador Program{{#if:{{{term|}}}|  during the {{{term}}} term}}}}}}

I noticed that Professor Diana Strassman, the founding editor of the journal "Feminist Economics" is an Wikipedia editor (User:DStrassmann) and runs Wikipedia Education Program Courses (although I don't see recent contributions from her).

Co-editor of the journal is Professor Günseli Berik, she is also a Wikipedia editor (User:BerikG) and also runs academic programs, perhaps she would like to get involved.

Marie

We've got Wikipedia:Gendergap that we could do something with, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender bias task force, which has members but hasn't been active.

Sarah

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