Hey all, check out Wikisource's main page right now. :-) There are
several users whose gender I don't know, but one of Wikisource's
currently most active editors, and an administrator, is
kathleen.wright5. One of its bureaucrats and village elders is also a
woman, BirgitteSB. Inspired by some of the uploads from the National
Archives, we recently created a women's suffrage portal
(
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women%27s_suffrage), which is
slightly misnamed, because a few other documents from related
non-suffrage political activism have been since added.
I think several of the sister projects are actually places where it
would be easier for women to thrive than the English Wikipedia,
especially Wikisource and Wikiquote. These are small communities that
have the luxury of nurturing newcomers (and lack the culture of
competitive patrolling which puts off newbies), have less bureaucracy,
and have less conflict. We can only speculate, but I think a main reason
that there is a gender gap on such other projects is just because most
projects live in Wikipedia's shadow and new editors only find them
through becoming Wikipedia contributors, and those demographics carry over.
Dominic
On 9/15/11 9:17 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to
wikiquote. I have
contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only
woman who ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even
think there is much of anything related to women's history on
Wikisource...
We were discussing in #wikimedia-gendergap a few days ago about the
need for more featured images of women and related subjects on
Commons. I kept rolling my eyes everytime I saw the ATV that was a
featured image the other day.
I'm actually developing a wikipage that will showcase a collection of
topics that need expansion, watching, clean up, etc, and/or photos for
English Wikipedia, which I naturally assume will be the same for other
languages. Once it's a little fleshed out we can see if it's useful in
any way. I think it's interesting just to see what we're lacking
on...on top of the 1009232 other things I'm doing...
-Sarah
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net
<mailto:carolmooredc@verizon.net>> wrote:
Looking at my wikiquotes talk page for the first time in a while,
I was reminded that is another area women's contributions may not
be taken as seriously.
Example: the deletion in 2009 of poet Marcella Boccia's quotes
from English wikipedia after her article had been deleted from En
wikipedia.
Actually, I just checked and it's not in the Italian wikipedia
version either. Despite
http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm…
<http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1>
notability in Italian I noted at time of deletion discussion.
So let's not forget Wikiquote!!
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