New subject: Wikiml-l Digest, Vol 54, Issue 78

15 Feb 2013

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 prominent
huffingtonpost<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html>accepted
your article. We the malayalm community also proud of your
achievement.

Sujith

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    1. Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender
       Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
       (noopur)

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 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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 Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM
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 (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
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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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain>
  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%<http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf>
  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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborati…rt>,
 like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a
 part of the collaborative.

 In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamp<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChix_2011_Lunch>
  at Wikimania <https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/>, the global
 gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants.

 Organizations like the Ada Initiative <http://adainitiative.org/>, 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 &lt;nethahussain(a)gmail.com&gt; or
 join us here <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative>.
 *

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 *Sarah Stierch*
 *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow*
 >Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's
outreach: donate today<https://donate.wikimedia.org/>  <<

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