[Gendergap] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea

[CherianTinu Abraham]

FYI on a discussion in Wikimedia India mailing list.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

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From: Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Workshop for Women in Wikipedia (WWW) idea
To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


hi,

Tinu Cherian and Moksh Juneja were discussing this on twitter. Tinu
suggested that there be held a Workshop for Women in Wikipedia as a response
to the news article/study on the point about percentage of women who
participate in Wikipedia.

These are a few blog and newspaper articles you can read for background
which shows that fewer than 15% of the editors on Wikipedia are women.
1. Wikimedia Blog -
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/02/01/wikipedias-gender-gap/
2. New York Times article -
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?bl - which
triggered the debate.
3. Sue Gardner, among the people covered in the NY Times article, posted a
separate blog post -
http://suegardner.org/2011/01/31/new-york-times-prompts-a-flurry-of-coverage-of-wikipedias-gender-gap/-
which writes about the coverage.

A mailing list has now been created called Gender Gap as a "a space where
Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians can share research and information and
tactics for making Wikipedia more attractive to women editors." This mailing
list can be found here - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/

Tinu's suggested workshop idea has led to Moksh urging him to take it up
seriously and he's offered to help in the Mumbai end of things. I suggested
that the first such event under that or other name could be held on March 8,
2011 (the centenary year of International Women's Day). The workshop is seen
as a space to help and mentor passionate women editors on Wikipedia who need
help. I think we do this anyway but the very bad gender skew means we have
to do it more often.

This has just been posted as a starting point for conversations. Ideas,
suggestions etc are all welcome.

warm regards,
Pradeep Mohandas
user:prad2609

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