This is another one of those perspectives articles. :) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Iran is where the original text of this article can be found. We could use some assistance with organising the perspectives section as the FAQ page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ ) has become a bit crowd. Any help doing that would be really, really appreciated. :) It is getting a bit long. Any additional help improving these perspectives would also be appreciated. There doesn't appear to be any research like this done by the Foundation or academics studying Wikipedia. Thus, completely blank slate. It is fantastic to now have it, as it means we can better address needs on a global and local level. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_-_women_perspective_by... the list of countries.
On to Iran! :D
[image: Flag of Iran.svg] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran Iran [image: people standing outside in the snow]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg Wikipedia's 10 Birthday in Tabriz
No women attended the 10 Year Wikipedia Birthday party held in Tehran[1]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10th_birthday_of_Wikipedia_in_Tehran6.JPG or Mashhad. [2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedai-10th-Anniversary-Mashhad-2.jpg They did attend the event in Tabriz.[3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg [image: a chart showing greater participation of male contributors on Persian language wikiprojects]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi_Gender_Wikiproject.png http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi_Gender_Wikiproject.png Differences in accounts on Persian wiki projects where users explicitly state their gender.
In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikipedia was ranked the 8th most popular site in the country.[4]http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org In the period between November 2010 and October 2011, 31.4% of the traffic to Mazandarani Wikipedia was from this country.[5]http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm Iranians provide 74.5% of the traffic to Persian Wikipedia, 10.7% of the traffic to Sorani Wikipedia, 51.0% of the traffic to Gilaki Wikipedia, 31.4% of the traffic to Mazandarani Wikipedia and 7.9% of the traffic to Kashmiri Wikipedia.[6]http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm There are 0 articles about women's basketball teamshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Category:Women%27s_basketball_teams in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teamshttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Club_de_basket-ball_f%C3%A9minin in this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's basketball teamshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0 in this country on Japanese Wikipedia. To contextualise this, there is a national women's league in Iran and the country has a women's national team that competes internationally.[7]http://www.asia-basket.com/Iran/basketball-Women-League.asp?women=1 A search on Persian Wikipedia shows 57 results for Women's basketball. [8]http://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87%3A%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88&search=%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86+%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84There are 0 articles about women's association football clubs in this country on Persian Wikipedia (fa:رده:باشگاههای فوتبال زنان بر پایه کشورhttp://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87:%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1). There are 0 articles about women's association football clubshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_association_football_clubs_by_country in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 3 articles about models from this country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_models on English Wikipedia. In December 2011, elections were held for English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committeehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011. No women from this country ran for Arbitration Committee and there are currently no women from this country on the Arbitration Committee.
Persian Wikipedia has some coverage of women's sport. There is an article about women's sport.[9]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhgYxUj_gr1lS5gfC1beQo0Jzzi42w There is a list of articles about female Iranian athletes[10]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2581%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B3%25D8%25AA_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586_%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4%25DA%25A9%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhhfzlZr5L4sbo3w-Mlsy1SIfJXzjg which links to several blue link articles including on about Purple Rezai champion tennis player,[11]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2581%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B3%25D8%25AA_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586_%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4%25DA%25A9%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhhfzlZr5L4sbo3w-Mlsy1SIfJXzjg Homa Hosseini : Qayqran and national team basketball player,[12]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2587%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7_%25D8%25AD%25D8%25B3%25DB%258C%25D9%2586%25DB%258C&usg=ALkJrhiAixEc2ZfmmlwMSHUQIz0XrNdOWw N Abtin who was an Iranian shooting competitor at the 2008 Summer Olympics, [13]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2586%25D8%25AC%25D9%2585%25D9%2587_%25D8%25A2%25D8%25A8%25D8%25AA%25DB%258C%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhjrXqcgRnqSIzINnFCOotz9K_b8uA, numerous Iranian chess players, association football player Niloofar Ardalan, [14]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2586%25DB%258C%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D9%2581%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AF%25D9%2584%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhirlpMUIqDXPp0RwtBiAGh8x4RhdQ and martial artist Sarah Khvshjmal mind.[15]http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D8%25B3%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7_%25D8%25AE%25D9%2588%25D8%25B4%25E2%2580%258C%25D8%25AC%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584_%25D9%2581%25DA%25A9%25D8%25B1%25DB%258C&usg=ALkJrhjmdR7HKRAvcocuk3b7xPlrUkWpeA Persian Wikipedia also covers female politicians. A search for the term female politician brings up 45 results.[16]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffa.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3D%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87%253A%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%26search%3D%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%2B%D8%B2%D9%86%26fulltext%3DSearch%26ns0%3D1%26redirs%3D1%26profile%3Dadvanced Most of the biography articles in the result about about non-Iranian women from countries lik the United States, the Netherlands, India, Costa Rica and Thailand. For both sport and politics, biographies are not sorted by gender: Men and women are both in one general broad category.
In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikinews was ranked the 10,231th most popular site in the country.[17]http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org A December 2011 search on Spanish Wikinews for Irán mujeres found 17 articles that mentioned both words.[18]http://es.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3ABuscar&search=Ir%C3%A1n+mujeres&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced A December 2011 search on English Wikinews for Iran Women found 47 articles that mentioned both words.[19]http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=women+Iran A December 2011 search on Portuguese Wikinews for mulheres Irã found 30 articles that mentioned both words.[20]http://pt.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3APesquisar&search=mulheres+Ir%C3%A3&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced There are no female administrators on English wikinews from this countryhttp://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Administrators, nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews accredited reportershttp://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Credential_verification. On Portuguese Wikinewshttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:P%C3%A1gina_principal, there are no women active from this country. This may be a result of several factors, including the language and because Portuguese Wikinews only has an active editing community of five people, one of whom is a woman. On Persian Wikinews, 283 users made at least 1 edit and 92 users made at least 5 edits. 80 users explicitly set their gender: 73 or 91.25% are male and 7 or 8.75% are female.[21]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikinews_p#gender-languages
Iranians are involved with some other projects, though not necessarily in leadership positions outside their native language. On their home language, their participation rates are higher in a few cases than the global 9% number that has been cited. On Persian Wikiquote, 782 users made at least 1 edit and 270 users made at least 5 edits. 107 users explicitly set their gender: 80 or 84.11% are male and 17 or 15.89% are female.[22]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikiquote_p#gender-languages In December 2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 40,841th most popular site in the country.[23] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiversity.org There are no women from this country involved in leadership roles on Englishhttp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page or German Wikiversity http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/v:_Hauptseite. Their participation is minimal to non-existent. In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikibooks was ranked the 3,317th most popular site in the country. [24] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikibooks.org On Persian Wikibooks, 926 users made at least 1 edit and 424 users made at least 5 edits. 183 users explicitly set their gender, with 140 or 76.5% as male and 43 or 23.5% as female.[25]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikibooks_p On Persian Wikisource, 460 users made at least 1 edit and 148 users made at least 5 edits 44 users explicitly set their gender: 130 or 90.28% are male, and 14 or 9.72% are female.[26]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikisource_p#gender-languages On Persian Wiktionary, 909 users made at least 1 edit and 224 users made at least 5 edits. 87 users explicitly set their gender: 171 or 91.44% are male and 16 or 8.56% are female.[27]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawiktionary_p There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from this country on MediaWiki.Org.[28]http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat There is 3 men and 0 women on the language incubatorhttp://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page who use Persian as their native language.[29]https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs
Iranians do not appear to be a priority area for the Foundation. During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Iranians, men or women, were featuredhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_December_22.2C_2011 are part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Researchhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011, the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and she was from the United States. There were four males from American universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no research fellows, male or female, from this country.