I am interested in IRC but there are already too many things on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_increasing_female_editors
to suggest for an about an hour long meeting, so if you want to talk
about solutions on IRC, please pick your top solution ideas you want
to talk about.
My top two on that list are:
1. Girl Scouts partnership, US and internationally
2. Improve articles on birth control in the Simple English Wikipedia
Here are two new ideas that may not be on the proposals list yet:
3. Angela Santomero --
http://angelasclues.com/ -- has access to PBS
public service announcement production facilities and she might be
willing to support ads that encourage girls to try editing.
4. I'd also like to understand more about how people feel about
plagiarism guidance to teachers. I've not put it on the list yet, but
with the recently announced statistic that 30% of prolific editors
started out vandalizing, I'm not sure we can rule out student
plagiarists as a potential gender balanced source of new editors the
Foundation could recruit by issuing formal guidance to teachers. Such
guidance might look like, "...Foundation recommends that students
caught plagiarizing from Wikimedia sites be assigned to improve (the
plagiarized) articles on the site (no matter how slightly) so that
they might become familiar with improving wiki articles."
Best regards,
James Salsman