[Gendergap] Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects

[Andreas Kolbe]

Along with any PR it might be a good idea to provide a link to the Facebook group, thislist or a portal where new women editors can give feedback on their experience ofediting. 
If new editors run into problems, it would be good to hear about these problems. Then wecan either investigate and do what's necessary to prevent other new editors having thesame problems, or at least explain why the problems arose and how they can be minimised.
Andreas


--- On Sat, 19/2/11, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com> wrote:From: Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com>

The historical reasons for the lower percentage

of women in science and technology 
are mostly the same reasons women aren't
participating on Wikipedia.  There will
be a few differences, but on the whole
moving forward is just as important
as studying why.  The studying why

is very expensive, and has been going
on for decades. Let's just get on with
it, and put out the PR that we are
celebrating and requesting women's
participation as experts on the 
Wikipedia site.


- Susan




      
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