The grantee will be reporting back post-grant, so suggest watching here for
stats, outcomes from the post-event survey, etc:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Ada_Initiative/Gender-gap_admin_…
I sometimes find that at events where uncomfortable topics are discussed
and participants are asked to not identify others by name w/o their
permission (because harassment, it happens to allies too....), folks tend
to not discuss super loudly in public afterwards, unless asked.
That said, I had the privilege of seeing some really good and useful
conversations in the workshop, and was told by several participants
afterwards that they'd like to see this pilot grow. We'll wait for the
survey and grant report to learn more about results overall.
Cheers,
Siko
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Luis. It was a bit hard to tell from the
promotion of the event if
there would be 10 or 100 participants, so I wasn't sure if it was just that
I hadn't run into anyone or if...well, you know...like Fight Club...
In any case, one of the participants, who wishes to remain unnamed, sent
me an email and gave permission to share his thoughts, as follows:
There were about two dozen attendees in cafe style seating, probably a
male majority but at least a third female.
There were several WMF staff, enough at least to show that they are
interested in the topic.
Attendees were skewed towards the English speaking world as compared to
wikimania generally and included some admins.
There were some strict confidentiality rules about the event including a
ban on photographs and I'm being careful not to say who was there. But it
was thought provoking and to my knowledge provoked several subsequent
discussions among participants.
The meat of the workshop was a series of example scenarios that were first
discussed in the table groups and the summated results were then fed back
to the room. Some got a fairly limited range of responses from the
different tables, others less so. For a workshop from an outside
organisation the scenarios showed they had done their homework, though some
could do with a little further tailoring for Wikipedia.
I wouldn't say that I came out of it with a new skill set, but some of the
scenarios garnered female reactions that hasn't occurred to me, and I
suspect we all came out of it having learned better ways to handle some of
the scenarios.
It would be possible to repeat the event and roll it out in the movement
either in major metropolitan areas or at future conferences, but it
requires a culture specific workshop leader and in person attendance.
There was a post event survey of participants so there may be some
publicity as to what the participants thought of it.
Another correspondent was kind enough to link me to the "basic" materials
for the workshop, which of course the Ada Initiative has given in other
settings.
Risker/Anne
On 24 July 2015 at 18:12, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I suspect it was just time pressures rather than
a conspiracy of silence,
Risker :) I certainly thought it was worthwhile and useful, and would have
been happy to chat about it if you'd asked.
Obviously we need to think about scaling and impact if we want to do more
of it, but I think that's certainly doable (especially if it is part of a
larger strategy for cultural change).
Luis
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What it says on the tin.
Even though I was present at Wikimania, I heard very, very little about
the Ally Skills workshop, even when I asked participants about it. (In
fact I don't think I got a straight answer to a single question about it.)
Given the interest about this workshop on this list, and the fact that
several of us would have liked to attend but had other commitments (whether
or not at Wikimania), I think many of us would like to hear at least some
bare-bones feedback about the session.
How many attendees? Male/female ratio? Key themes? Are any of the
participants comfortable in saying whether they felt they came away from
the session with new tools or skills that they feel will be useful?
I'm going to be honest, the silence about this well-supported experiment
has me very curious.
Risker/Anne
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