On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:29 PM, nikita belavate <niki8891@gmail.com> wrote:

An Article on Wikipedia Gender-gap in 'The Independent'
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/what-has-wikipedias-army-of-volunteer-editors-got-against-kate-middletons-wedding-gown-8050397.html

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
As discussed on the phone, I'm up for organizing something in Mumbai this Oct.

More later,
Bishakha

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas <pradx@outlook.com> wrote:

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@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@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 [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 <fredericknoronha@gmail.com> wrote:

http://visual.ly/wikipedias-gender-gap
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