[Gendergap] A pet peeve / cliche

[SlimVirgin]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 07:27, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:59 AM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 01:55, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > To have a serious response to the problem, let's have a
>> > 'Women Post to Wiki' month, and have a banner
>> > about it on every Wiki page during the month.  It validates that
>> > the world community accepts women as experts, and invites
>> > women to post who may have thought about it before, but didn't.
>> > I love that Google has different logos every day. Wiki
>> > can have a different logo for that month.
>> >
>> > - Susan Spencer Conklin
>> >
>> Susan, I think this is a great idea. International Women's Day is on March
>> 8.
>> http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp
>>
>> Sarah
>
> This is definitely doable and happened in a limited way in the past.
>
> The English Wikipedia DYK will pick theme related articles related to
> special dates such as International Women's Day. Last year they selected new
> articles that were related to women for the Main Page DYK section on this
> day. And the majority of the articles that I created last March for US
> Womens Histiory Month appeared as DYK on the Main Page.
>
> Sydney Poore
> (FloNight)
=

Is there time to organize a Wikipedia Women's Week centred around
March 8, with the explicit aim of attracting more women editors?

The WP logo could be changed a little to include the Venus symbol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_symbol

We could organize women editors to act as a welcoming party, or
mentors, to adopt new woman users during that week.

Should we separate off this thread so we have a header directly addressing it?

Sarah