[Gendergap] Global perspectives on female involvement with WMF: Iran

Thu Dec 29 02:09:50 UTC 2011

This is another one of those perspectives articles. :)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Iran is where
the original text of this article can be found.  We could use some
assistance with organising the perspectives section as the FAQ page (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ ) has become a bit crowd.
 Any help doing that would be really, really appreciated. :)  It is getting
a bit long.  Any additional help improving these perspectives would also be
appreciated.  There doesn't appear to be any research like this done by the
Foundation or academics studying Wikipedia.  Thus, completely blank slate.
 It is fantastic to now have it, as it means we can better address needs on
a global and local level.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiWomenCamp_-_women_perspective_by_countryhas
the list of countries.

On to Iran! :D

[image: Flag of Iran.svg] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran> Iran
[image: people standing outside in the
snow]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg>
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg>
Wikipedia's 10 Birthday in Tabriz

No women attended the 10 Year Wikipedia Birthday party held in
Tehran[1]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10th_birthday_of_Wikipedia_in_Tehran6.JPG>
or
Mashhad. [2]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedai-10th-Anniversary-Mashhad-2.jpg>
They
did attend the event in
Tabriz.[3]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Tabriz.jpg>
[image: a chart showing greater participation of male contributors on
Persian language
wikiprojects]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi_Gender_Wikiproject.png>
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farsi_Gender_Wikiproject.png>
Differences in accounts on Persian wiki projects where users explicitly
state their gender.

In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikipedia was ranked the 8th most
popular site in the country.[4]<http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org> In
the period between November 2010 and October 2011, 31.4% of the traffic to
Mazandarani Wikipedia was from this
country.[5]<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>
Iranians
provide 74.5% of the traffic to Persian Wikipedia, 10.7% of the traffic to
Sorani Wikipedia, 51.0% of the traffic to Gilaki Wikipedia, 31.4% of the
traffic to Mazandarani Wikipedia and 7.9% of the traffic to Kashmiri
Wikipedia.[6]<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm>
There
are 0 articles about women's basketball
teams<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Category:Women%27s_basketball_teams>
in
this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's
basketball teams<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Club_de_basket-ball_f%C3%A9minin>
in
this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's
basketball teams<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0>
in
this country on Japanese Wikipedia. To contextualise this, there is a
national women's league in Iran and the country has a women's national team
that competes internationally.[7]<http://www.asia-basket.com/Iran/basketball-Women-League.asp?women=1>
A
search on Persian Wikipedia shows 57 results for Women's basketball.
[8]<http://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87%3A%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88&search=%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86+%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84>There
are 0 articles about women's association football clubs in this country on
Persian Wikipedia (fa:رده:باشگاه‌های فوتبال زنان بر پایه
کشور<http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87:%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1>).
There are 0 articles about women's association football
clubs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_association_football_clubs_by_country>
in
this country on English Wikipedia. There are 3 articles about models from
this country <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_models> on
English Wikipedia. In December 2011, elections were held for English
Wikipedia's Arbitration
Committee<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2011>.
No women from this country ran for Arbitration Committee and there are
currently no women from this country on the Arbitration Committee.

Persian Wikipedia has some coverage of women's sport. There is an article
about women's sport.[9]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhgYxUj_gr1lS5gfC1beQo0Jzzi42w>
There
is a list of articles about female Iranian
athletes[10]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2581%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B3%25D8%25AA_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586_%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4%25DA%25A9%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhhfzlZr5L4sbo3w-Mlsy1SIfJXzjg>
which
links to several blue link articles including on about Purple Rezai
champion tennis
player,[11]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2581%25D9%2587%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B3%25D8%25AA_%25D8%25B2%25D9%2586%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586_%25D9%2588%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B2%25D8%25B4%25DA%25A9%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25DB%258C%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhhfzlZr5L4sbo3w-Mlsy1SIfJXzjg>
Homa
Hosseini : Qayqran and national team basketball
player,[12]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2587%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7_%25D8%25AD%25D8%25B3%25DB%258C%25D9%2586%25DB%258C&usg=ALkJrhiAixEc2ZfmmlwMSHUQIz0XrNdOWw>
N
Abtin who was an Iranian shooting competitor at the 2008 Summer Olympics,
[13]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2586%25D8%25AC%25D9%2585%25D9%2587_%25D8%25A2%25D8%25A8%25D8%25AA%25DB%258C%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhjrXqcgRnqSIzINnFCOotz9K_b8uA>,
numerous Iranian chess players, association football player Niloofar
Ardalan, [14]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D9%2586%25DB%258C%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D9%2581%25D8%25B1_%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AF%25D9%2584%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586&usg=ALkJrhirlpMUIqDXPp0RwtBiAGh8x4RhdQ>
and
martial artist Sarah Khvshjmal
mind.[15]<http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fa&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25D8%25B3%25D8%25A7%25D8%25B1%25D8%25A7_%25D8%25AE%25D9%2588%25D8%25B4%25E2%2580%258C%25D8%25AC%25D9%2585%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584_%25D9%2581%25DA%25A9%25D8%25B1%25DB%258C&usg=ALkJrhjmdR7HKRAvcocuk3b7xPlrUkWpeA>
Persian
Wikipedia also covers female politicians. A search for the term female
politician brings up 45
results.[16]<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffa.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3D%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%98%D9%87%253A%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%88%26search%3D%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%2B%D8%B2%D9%86%26fulltext%3DSearch%26ns0%3D1%26redirs%3D1%26profile%3Dadvanced>
Most
of the biography articles in the result about about non-Iranian women from
countries lik the United States, the Netherlands, India, Costa Rica and
Thailand. For both sport and politics, biographies are not sorted by
gender: Men and women are both in one general broad category.

In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikinews was ranked the 10,231th most
popular site in the country.[17]<http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org> A
December 2011 search on Spanish Wikinews for Irán mujeres found 17 articles
that mentioned both
words.[18]<http://es.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3ABuscar&search=Ir%C3%A1n+mujeres&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced>
A
December 2011 search on English Wikinews for Iran Women found 47 articles
that mentioned both
words.[19]<http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=women+Iran>
A
December 2011 search on Portuguese Wikinews for mulheres Irã found 30
articles that mentioned both
words.[20]<http://pt.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3APesquisar&search=mulheres+Ir%C3%A3&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced>
There
are no female administrators on English wikinews from this
country<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Administrators>,
nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews
accredited reporters<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Credential_verification>.
On Portuguese Wikinews<http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:P%C3%A1gina_principal>,
there are no women active from this country. This may be a result of
several factors, including the language and because Portuguese Wikinews
only has an active editing community of five people, one of whom is a
woman. On Persian Wikinews, 283 users made at least 1 edit and 92 users
made at least 5 edits. 80 users explicitly set their gender: 73 or 91.25%
are male and 7 or 8.75% are
female.[21]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikinews_p#gender-languages>

Iranians are involved with some other projects, though not necessarily in
leadership positions outside their native language. On their home language,
their participation rates are higher in a few cases than the global 9%
number that has been cited. On Persian Wikiquote, 782 users made at least 1
edit and 270 users made at least 5 edits. 107 users explicitly set their
gender: 80 or 84.11% are male and 17 or 15.89% are
female.[22]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikiquote_p#gender-languages>
In
December 2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 40,841th most popular site in the
country.[23] <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikiversity.org> There are no
women from this country involved in leadership roles on
English<http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Main_Page>
 or German Wikiversity <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/v:_Hauptseite>. Their
participation is minimal to non-existent. In December 2011, according to
Alexa, Wikibooks was ranked the 3,317th most popular site in the country.
[24] <http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikibooks.org> On Persian Wikibooks,
926 users made at least 1 edit and 424 users made at least 5 edits. 183
users explicitly set their gender, with 140 or 76.5% as male and 43 or
23.5% as female.[25]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikibooks_p>
On
Persian Wikisource, 460 users made at least 1 edit and 148 users made at
least 5 edits 44 users explicitly set their gender: 130 or 90.28% are male,
and 14 or 9.72% are
female.[26]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawikisource_p#gender-languages>
On
Persian Wiktionary, 909 users made at least 1 edit and 224 users made at
least 5 edits. 87 users explicitly set their gender: 171 or 91.44% are male
and 16 or 8.56% are
female.[27]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs&db=fawiktionary_p>
There
are no bureaucrats, male or female, from this country on
MediaWiki.Org.[28]<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat>
There
is 3 men and 0 women on the language
incubator<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> who
use Persian as their native
language.[29]<https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=incubatorprefs>

Iranians do not appear to be a priority area for the Foundation. During the
December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Iranians, men or women, were
featured<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_December_22.2C_2011>
are
part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of
Research<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011>,
the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and
she was from the United States. There were four males from American
universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese
university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no
research fellows, male or female, from this country.

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