Hi All,
Today we're pleased to announce a new group of grantees working to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects.
In early March, we announced the Inspire campaign https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire, an initiative led by WMF’s Community Resources team to generate new ideas to address Wikimedia's gender gap. From 266 ideas came 42 grant proposals eligible for consideration. After careful review by a committee of volunteer Wikimedians and gender-focused experts, 16 projects have been recommended and approved for funding.
The projects are experimenting with a variety of strategies: organizing events and leveraging professional communities, institutions and partnerships to create quality content, researching gaps in both content and contributors, and testing approaches for training and mentorship to better support gender diversity on-wiki. Overall, we’re particularly pleased to see projects looking at gender in multiple ways as they work to improve Wikipedia’s gender diversity across various contexts, and to be supporting some returning grantees as well as many new project leaders who identify as women or allies for increasing gender diversity.
You can also read more about the campaign and each funded project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/.
The funded projects are:
- Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedian_in_Residence_for_Gender_Equity - Gender gap admin training https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training
- Survey women who don't contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Survey_women_who_don%27t_contribute
- Wikipedia Gender Index https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index
- Wikipedia Buddy Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_Buddy_Group - Wiki Edit-a-thon Work Parties https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_Edit-a-thon_Work_Parties - More Female Architects on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia
- Linguistics Editathon series: Improving female linguists' participation and representation on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Linguistics_Editathon_series:_Improving_female_linguists%27_participation_and_representation_on_Wikipedia - Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the Aphra Behn Society https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia_edit-a-thon_for_the_Aphra_Behn_Society - Wikineedsgirls https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wikineedsgirls - Gender in East Asia Wikipedia Editing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender_in_East_Asia_Wikipedia_Editing - Full Circle Gap Protocol: Addressing the Unknown Unknowns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Full_Circle_Gap_Protocol:_Addressing_the_%E2%80%98Unknown_Unknowns%E2%80%99 - Wellington Wikipedia Meet Up - With Childcare https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Wellington_Wikipedia_Meet_Up_-_With_Childcare!
- Just for the record https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Just_for_the_record - Let's fill the gender gap Workshops https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Let%27s_fill_the_gender_gap_Workshops - Empowering Afrodescendant women in Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Empowering_Afrodescendant_women_in_Wikipedia
What’s next:
We hope you'll continue to engage with these projects as they begin work in coming months and offer your experience and ideas!
Meanwhile, our regularly scheduled grant programs continue :)
A number of ideas and grant proposals from the campaign are still in development. Over the coming year, we'll continue to encourage people to make changes based on feedback and our Project and Event Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG and Individual Engagement Grants https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG programs will be happy to continue to receive new or adjusted proposals aimed at increasing gender diversity during regular funding cycles along with all other topics.
A full analysis of the Inspire campaign is in progress, and in coming weeks we'll be sharing findings from a traffic analysis and a participant survey. Stay tuned for another update in mid-May on what we learned from the Inspire experiment, what worked, what didn't, and recommended steps for the future.
Many thanks to all of you that contributed to this campaign with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions!
Cheers,
The Inspire Team
There was one very silly comment at the blog entry http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/
So I couldn't help commenting on what I see as the big problem...
Having lots more edit-a-thons, etc. to get women to try Wikipedia is great. But we can’t keep just ignoring the biggest problem – which is guys, individually and too often in small groups, who don’t like or think important information about women or which might be somewhat more interesting to women than men. And they just don’t like women coming into their “turf”, be it by adding information, opining on talk pages or – Heavens forbid! – reverting them. In other words – sexism. They often ignore a woman’s positive contributions but are quick to criticize harshly anything they disagree with. Other guys may have qualms about or even strongly dislike this kind of behavior, but most of them will not repeatedly criticize it or fight to stop it. This kind of sexism is rife among editors, administrators and arbitrators. And probably too many Wikimedia Foundation employees. Ending sexism has to be more action oriented from the top down if Wikipedia is going to make it easier for women to edit, or to edit while they admit they are female.
Hmmm, looks like some guys even object to edit-a-thons, trashing their posters on campus... http://www.newsrecord.org/news/students-combat-gender-imbalance-online/artic...
On 5/2/2015 11:43 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote:
There was one very silly comment at the blog entry http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/
So I couldn't help commenting on what I see as the big problem...
Having lots more edit-a-thons, etc. to get women to try Wikipedia is great. But we can’t keep just ignoring the biggest problem – which is guys, individually and too often in small groups, who don’t like or think important information about women or which might be somewhat more interesting to women than men. And they just don’t like women coming into their “turf”, be it by adding information, opining on talk pages or – Heavens forbid! – reverting them. In other words – sexism. They often ignore a woman’s positive contributions but are quick to criticize harshly anything they disagree with. Other guys may have qualms about or even strongly dislike this kind of behavior, but most of them will not repeatedly criticize it or fight to stop it. This kind of sexism is rife among editors, administrators and arbitrators. And probably too many Wikimedia Foundation employees. Ending sexism has to be more action oriented from the top down if Wikipedia is going to make it easier for women to edit, or to edit while they admit they are female.
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