On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: We want everything related to women's involvement with Wikimedia projects in the region. :) This includes, but is not limited to: * Women who are currently on a chapter's board in a country or region. The history of women on those boards. * Women who are currently employe-ed by a chapter. The history of women being employed by the board. * The number of female members in a chapter. Historical numbers for female numbers. * Current and past initiatives taken by a chapter or inside a country or region related to women. * Current and past initiatives taken by a chapter or inside a country or region that were started by, run by or largely supported by female volunteers. * Female participation at meetups organised in a region. Percentage of the participants that were female. * Female topics on Wikipedian, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikisource that are covered really well or covered not so well. * The roles of women from a country on projects like Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Meta, Outreach, Mediawiki. This includes project coordinators, arbcoms, administrators, oversighters, etc. Historical data regarding female participation from your country related to that. (Example: Military History on English Wikipedia has one female coordinator, a woman from Canada.) * Topics that female contributors are active around from a country. Areas where women are actually editing from a country. * International conferences related to Wikimedia Foundation that women from a country have attended and their level of participation.at those events. For all the negative talk about the gender gap, there are some truly fantastic women around the world doing really important work and helping to push ahead with project goals. There are areas to work on, but it is worth noting where we excel and areas where, by nation, we need work. One of the best pieces of feedback we have received since we publicly announced this conference was that people were unaware of the amount of female leadership coming out of Asia and South America: It was a big surprise to people. :) Sincerely, Laura Hale

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: At the moment, this is to both inform the community the state of female participation on a leadership level, the state of women's participation on WMF projects (the 9% number is meaningless unless properly contextualised) and the state of women's related content by region. Women are not a homogenous group and a solution that works for some women ( like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Teahouse ) will not work for other women (like Australians, where the concept is alien). It is important to understand these sub populations, where they exist and what they are up to. Beyond that, the purpose of the list is to create benchmarks for chapters and communities with in the movement to see how they can improve. If we get this information, six months, a year, two years down the line, we can say: Look! We've improved the participation levels of women at New Zealand based meet ups (and at the same time increased male participation levels!). We have more women involved in editing articles about popular Australian women's sports, about Australian literature and about female Australian politicians. In this country, there was not a single woman on the board but now they have one. In Bangladesh, they sent their first woman to attend an international conference and she came back and helped organise events in the country. This information can also be used by participants to help justify external grants from outside WMF to help address these issues. There are many grants out there related to women, female leadership, etc. This can help that. (It was in fact one of the major reasons discussed on our planning list. We need these perspectives in order to help current and future female leaders, so they can apply for grants to do things. There are some women in some chapters who do a great job at grants, including in Hungary and South Africa.) I don't know how interesting this information is the WMF. We haven't had a sit down with the WMF about our conference. If they find this helpful for their own mission, fantastic. Awesome. It would be great to hear more about women in the Movement from an international perspective. :) We have some truly fantastic women and they don't always get the credit they deserve. -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: Thank you. :) Anything that can be documented is appreciated. :) -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

Risker, 24/12/2011 17:44: I guess that it is because 1) chapters are one place where women can be involved, 2) chapters, countries and "the physical world" are where/how it's suggested to work to increase female participation. Nemo

Great work Nina. Thanks a lot :D _____ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt> (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* On 20 December 2011 22:05, Nina Wikipedia &lt;nina.wikipedia(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: