Hello,
As one of the organizers/attendees for Recent Changes Camp Boston 2011, I just wanted to share what happened during the Gender Gap session through pictures taken by wikiHow admin ttrimm. This was the most popular session, followed by a session about Wiki Politics:
Gender Gap session attendeeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ttrimm/5527798069/in/set-72157626144598891/#/photos/ttrimm/5527798069/in/set-72157626144598891/lightbox/. (I am the woman in purple next to the easel on the right who is scratching her head.)
Noteshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ttrimm/5527798201/in/set-72157626144598891/. - If you have any questions about the notes, please feel free to ask me either here or off-list.
40% of the conference attendees were female. Most of these women were wikiHow admis, but also Anne Goldenberg (the facilitator and one of the co-organizers), a woman who created websites using Tiki as well as a woman who was just getting started editing Appropedia.
I think the conclusion that we came to was that making it easier for people to become part of the community (for example, being less argumentative with newbies), would help to lower the barriers to entry and get more people involved. Basically, anything that would help the newbies like clearer documentation and being super gentle with people who are editing wikis for the first time. While newbie friendliness, may not be specific to women, we felt that it would help get more new editors on Wikipedia and the other WMF projects, including more women.