(Apologies for cross-posting)

Hello!

After almost two years, the first Inspire Campaign on gender diversity is coming to a close.[1] As an initial experiment in proactive grantmaking, we consider the campaign a success! It engaged over 600 people in addressing the gender gap, resulting in both quantitative and qualitative shifts: approximately 13,000 articles were created or improved, the number of women leading grant-funded projects significantly increased, and our thinking about gender diversity expanded in both expected and unexpected ways. While there are still a few grants that will continue into 2017, we believe this campaign has been a success in bringing attention, diverse thinking and new progress to the topic of gender diversity within our movement.

Many thanks to the teams that have dedicated their time and effort over these months!

We have put together a report, focusing on the outcomes of the Inspire grants that submitted reports by August 2016.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Inspire_ Campaigns/Gender_gap

Our report focuses on the major themes we saw across these 11 grants, and especially highlights how people participated and contributed in expected and unexpected ways. For instance, we now know that people participated in many more ways than just editing; we also know that in addition to article improvement and creation, multiple approaches were adopted to rectify content bias and content gaps.

In the long term, once the movement strategy is complete in August 2017, our team will revisit the topic of gender diversity under the new lens of the movement’s strategic priorities. By designing new or improved models for proactive grantmaking, our hope is that Inspire campaigns will continue to ignite innovative thinking how to address key issues like the gender diversity within our movement.

Happy reading!

Alex Wang, Marti Johnson, Sati Houston, and Chris Schilling

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Archi ve/Gender_gap_campaign