[Gendergap] Wikiproject: Womens Cafe for all language wikis

carolmooredc at verizon.net carolmooredc at verizon.net
Mon Feb 14 22:49:06 UTC 2011


IDEA - start WIKIPROJECT in all languages called: Womens Cafe (or 
something sociable and helpful sounding) as an outreach, education and 
support network

There are several feminism wikiprojects fr:Projet:Femmes - 
pl:Wikiprojekt:Gender Studies - sv:Wikipedia:Projekt kvinnor - 
es:Wikiproyecto:Feminismo - En. Wikiproject:Feminism There also is a 
proposal for WomensHistory. However, many women are not interested in 
editing on womens topics and/or want more general education and 
support.  (And some of course steer away from the word feminism, though 
this project hopefully would complement, not compete with any 
wikiprojects feminism.) Men of course would be allowed to help and 
learn, but doubtless there would be a low tolerance for questionable and 
trolling behavior.

Each project could link to some of  the helpful things other projects do:

*Quick help box like
http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism

*List of relevant articles about women in wikipedia, including some 
gender gap ones, so they can understand context.

*An articles issues page to list articles that whose subject women might 
be more interested in, where women can ask for help on where to go when 
having problems in articles, or even can list articles where women feel 
they are being hassled and would like uninvolved editors' (especially 
womens') opinion.

*Links to training videos that show women how to edit on wikipedia and 
quickly deal with issues.

*Other relevant links, material, pages, resources, etc.

I don't want to start one in En. WIkipedia, but would certainly join and 
help out.





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