On 2/13/12, Asaf Bartov <abartov@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:54 PM, stephen wanjau
>> <wanjaustev@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I came across this and I would like to share. click

>>> here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Kenya>

>>>
>>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Grace Kariuki <gkariuki99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the statistics are quite alarming.
>>
>
> Are they? Are we worried about there not being a featured article on
> Women's sports in Kenya on English Wikipedia? How is that a priority?

With all due respect, Asaf, I don't think its a question of prioritizing women's issues over content. It doesn't (and shouldn't, I believe) be an *either/or* issue. Ideally, we should be thinking of building inclusive, diverse communities who write a diverse range of Wikipedia articles. These two things go together, not in any particular order.

If
> we care about featured articles (and I'm not sure we should, very much),
> perhaps we can undertake to improve a more basic topic first, such as
> [[Kenya]], which is, as of this writing, not even a "Good Article" on
> English Wikipedia?
>
> Likewise, is it at all meaningful that there was no Kenyan woman among the
> eight (8!) researchers employed at the foundation this summer? There was
> no Kenyan man, either. So what is the "perspective" this gives us on women
> in the movement?
>
> What is it that you found alarming?
>
> Asaf
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation
>

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