Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap

Hi, It would be great to know if the women wikipedians in India have gotten together and are doing something on this issue. I had expressed last year an intention of doing a Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai, but this became part of the WikiConference India program. Has there been any specific actions taken beyond that? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:23:28 +0530 From: nethahussain(a)gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap Interesting. *Only 9% of Wikipedia editors are females* - The number could be a bit more or a bit less, as this conclusion is based on the gender preferences given by the user in their account. [1] I am pretty sure that the figures in most Indian language Wikipedias would be even lesser, considering that women in our country have lesser access to the internet than those of the West. We are yet to tap the potential of the millions of e-literate women of our country who are have the basic skills to contribute to Wikipedia. Considering that women can create more impact on other women, we need to have more women from the community be active in outreach activities. I am still hopeful that a day will come when the gender ratio in all Indic Wikipedias would be close to 1:1! I'd request all Indian women Wikimedians on this list to add their names to this<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians>[2] page so that we could plan for online and offline activities for increasing the participation of women in Wikiprojects. [1] http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf [2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Thanks! Cheers Netha Hussain [[User: Netha Hussain]] On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا &lt;fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: http://visual.ly/wikipedias-gender-gap -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 fn(a)goa-india.org Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l