Congratulations, Netha.
Ajay
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Congrats Netha, you raised the gender issue of wikipedia out of the walls and we the men
are bound to listen more from u :)
It is not a silly thing that the prominenthuffingtonpost accepted your article. We the
malayalm community also proud of your achievement.
Sujith
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Subject: [Wikiml-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap
(Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
Dear all,
I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post has a guest blog
post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :)
Best,
Noopur
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Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by
millions of volunteers from around the world. I am one of those writers for the last 3
years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to
Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on
Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into
the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around 9% of
the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on
Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent.
Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from
women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on
Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be
covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on
Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully
deserve.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had
recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various
programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is
the WikiWomen's Collaborative.
The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world
who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the
same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and
engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A
variety of events, like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a
part of the collaborative.
In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamp was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get
together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the
Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries
participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing problems that concern women,
and suggest future plans to collaborate with one another. It is customary to conduct
a WikiWomen's luncheon at Wikimania, the global gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively
for the women participants.
Organizations like the Ada Initiative, named for the world's first programmer Countess
Ada Lovelace, support women working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by
creating resources for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising
organizations on supporting women.
Many outreach programs were conducted in women's universities all over the world to
encourage students to participate in the Wikimedia movement. The Women's History month
edit-a-thons conducted every year, attracts both male and female editors to write
biographies of notable women on Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25%
by 2015. Given the good response from the community to various events conducted for women,
it is likely that the foundation will achieve its goal within the set time limit.
If you would like to get engaged in various activities for women in Wikipedia, you are
welcome to write to me or join us here.
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Sarah Stierch
Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow
>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's
outreach: donate today<<
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