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

[carolmooredc at verizon.net]

On 3/17/2011 6:43 AM, elisabeth bauer wrote:
> 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?
**If I remember correctly, the response was two "Good idea, but I'm too 
busy" messages. Like all forms of advertising, it is necessary to repeat 
the message before people pay attention.

So actually there need to be a series of messages for such group lists 
over a period of a month or so. Whether they are all people you know 
personally, partially know (as in case of two different lists I sent to) 
or not know at all.  Say, one introductory and explicit one like the 
draft I put up. Two short, wow, look at this article I worked on on 
wikipedia (in their area of interest) with general encouragement to 
edit. (I.e., obviously not as canvassing to get support on a disputed 
article). Maybe mixed into some discussion on some topic. And then 
another one that again encourages them in a short friendly way. Plus 
drop in links to various articles on topics discussed from time to time 
after that.  Maybe even put it in one's tag line "I edit wikipedia! Can 
you guess my handle?" or whatever.
>> 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?
Great idea!  Is there a link to show how to do that? I can imagine a few 
of us getting together and, after running through the basics, having TOO 
much fun with some article, meat puppeting away. (Especially if someone 
brings booze.) So good to have clear guidelines on how to do that as a 
party - but not party too hard! :-)
> greetings,
> elian
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