[Gendergap] Global perspective on female participation in WMF: Iran

[Laura Hale]

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_country
has
the list of countries.

On to Iran! :D


No women attended the 10 Year Wikipedia Birthday party held in Tehran[1] or
Mashhad. [2] They did attend the event in Tabriz.[3]

In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikipedia was ranked the 8th most
popular site in the country.[4] In the period between November 2010 and
October 2011, 31.4% of the traffic to Mazandarani Wikipedia was from this
country.[5] 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] There are 0 articles about women's
basketball teams in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles
about women's basketball teams in this country on French Wikipedia. There
are 0 articles about women's basketball teams 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] A search on Persian Wikipedia shows 57 results for
Women's basketball. [8]There are 0 articles about women's association
football clubs in this country on Persian Wikipedia (fa:رده:باشگاه‌های
فوتبال زنان بر پایه کشور). There are 0 articles about women's association
football clubs in this country on English Wikipedia. There are 3 articles
about models from this country on English Wikipedia. In December 2011,
elections were held for English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. 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] There is a list of articles about female Iranian
athletes[10] which links to several blue link articles including on about
Purple Rezai champion tennis player,[11] Homa Hosseini : Qayqran and
national team basketball player,[12] N Abtin who was an Iranian shooting
competitor at the 2008 Summer Olympics, [13], numerous Iranian chess
players, association football player Niloofar Ardalan, [14] and martial
artist Sarah Khvshjmal mind.[15] Persian Wikipedia also covers female
politicians. A search for the term female politician brings up 45
results.[16] 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] A December 2011 search on Spanish Wikinews
for Irán mujeres found 17 articles that mentioned both words.[18] A
December 2011 search on English Wikinews for Iran Women found 47 articles
that mentioned both words.[19] A December 2011 search on Portuguese
Wikinews for mulheres Irã found 30 articles that mentioned both words.[20]
There are no female administrators on English wikinews from this country,
nor are there any women from this country who are English wikinews
accredited reporters. On Portuguese Wikinews, 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]
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] In December
2011, Wikiversity was ranked the 40,841th most popular site in the
country.[23] There are no women from this country involved in leadership
roles on English or German Wikiversity. 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] 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] 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] 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] There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from this country on
MediaWiki.Org.[28] There is 3 men and 0 women on the language incubator who
use Persian as their native language.[29]

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
are part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of Research, 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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