[Gendergap] Women Editing Wikipedia Month (March)

[Sue Gardner]

Hey folks,

I know there have been a couple of threads discussing the idea of an
outreach-to-women Edit Wikipedia Day/Week/Month.

I'm curious to know if we all want to take a crack at it?

We've been kicking it around at the Wikimedia Foundation, and although
we're daunted by the timeline, we'd be willing to give it a shot. I
feel like there's really good momentum building around this issue
right now, and we should take advantage of it.

I'm imagining something a bit like the 10th anniversary: a wiki page
where we could publish a manifesto of some kind describing the
project, and people could post their events/activities supporting it.
I'm imagining events/activities could range from "I pledge to teach my
sister how to edit Wikipedia on March 8," to "I will persuade at least
six of my female colleagues to try editing, by posting to all my
academic listservs," to "the French chapter will hold an edit-a-thon
at the public library in Paris, and will specifically aim to recruit
women to turn up, every weekend in March." You know what I mean: that
kind of thing.

Do we want to do this? If so, let's get a page started :-)

Thanks,
Sue


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