[Gendergap] Outreach..was.. Proposal: Forking gendergap

elisabeth bauer eflebeth at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 17 10:43:24 UTC 2011


2011/3/17 Carol Moore in DC <contactme at carolmoore.net>:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/outreach_letters
> My first draft of any outreach email letter - which I sent an earlier
> version of to a bunch of women with no positive feedback.

What do you mean by this? Did you get any feedback at all?

>So waiting for
> others to comment or come up with different approaches before sending out
> such outreach emails more widely

I don't think outreach letters, however well formulated, will motivate
many people to try editing Wikipedia. If you know the women you sent
your letter to, why not rather invite them to an edit wikipedia party?

greetings,
elian



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