A colleague of mine from the history world drew my attention to a blog dialog that has led to a new WikiProject for Women's History (on English Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History
Here's the trail: January 31: http://cliotropic.org/blog/2011/01/wikipedia-and-womens-history/ Febuary 4: http://hmprescott.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/how-womens-historians-can-help-cl... February 4 (2): http://cliotropic.org/blog/2011/02/introducing-wikiproject-womens-history/ February 5: http://hmprescott.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/womens-history-and-wikipedia-part...
Worth reading, and some interesting comments as well.
What's really encouraging to me is that, with this wave of attention on Wikipedia's gender gap, a lot of people who haven't contributed before are taking an interest. People are treating it not so much as Wikipedia's problem, but as everyone's problem... and responding with "let's do something about it."
-Sage