wiki-women-empowerement - Gendergap

26 Sep 2011

Dear all,

Last weekend we had celebrated 10th anniversary of polish Wikipedia.
Definitly successful event gathered lot of Wikipedians, media attention as
well as general audience.
just to mention that among several very interesting subjects i got a chance
to present also the issue of women and Wikipedia.
the lecture was called "female face of Wikipedia" and was to sum up the
discussions that started after February 2011 interview that Sue Gardner has
given mentioning the gender gap problem.
In the presentation i had briefed on many initiatives undertaken as
immediate and later reaction to the interview (start of this mailing list,
many local projects and workshops to empower women to become Wikieditors),
underlined the question why it is important and what added values it brings
as well as the question on if there is any substantial difference in the
quality of article edited by woman or man (IMHO non what matters is the
quality of work not really what gender is the author).
the lecture - as all of that conference - has been shoutcasted online and
video recorded and later the videos would be available online on free
licences. The language of lecture was Polish. Not sure if the video would
have subtitles in english - most probably not.

for the upcoming 8th March we're planning again workshops for women (in
several cities in Poland) on wiki-editing and wiki-values.

shall you have any questions, comments about the lecture or would like to
share your experience (good practices, weak points, suggestions for
improvement) on workshops or other ideas especially for 8th March, you shall
not hesitate to write and are more then welcome to share your experience.

bests,
Lantuszka