[Gendergap] Women Editing Wikipedia Month (March)

[Steven Walling]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> Sue Gardner.
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FYI:

I've done a reorganization of the gender gap page on Meta (including with a link to Sarah's new Women
on Wikipedia Week page) to try and encourage more work in the vein of tenwiki. 

In addition to what's there, I was thinking we'd add maybe a research section or element that can describe the various questions answered or unanswered, as well as the data sets involved and their merits.

Please edit away!

Steven Walling
Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org





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