[Gendergap] Wikiquotes

[Dominic]

Hey all, check out Wikisource's main page right now. :-) There are 
several users whose gender I don't know, but one of Wikisource's 
currently most active editors, and an administrator, is 
kathleen.wright5. One of its bureaucrats and village elders is also a 
woman, BirgitteSB. Inspired by some of the uploads from the National 
Archives, we recently created a women's suffrage portal 
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Women%27s_suffrage), which is 
slightly misnamed, because a few other documents from related 
non-suffrage political activism have been since added.

I think several of the sister projects are actually places where it 
would be easier for women to thrive than the English Wikipedia, 
especially Wikisource and Wikiquote. These are small communities that 
have the luxury of nurturing newcomers (and lack the culture of 
competitive patrolling which puts off newbies), have less bureaucracy, 
and have less conflict. We can only speculate, but I think a main reason 
that there is a gender gap on such other projects is just because most 
projects live in Wikipedia's shadow and new editors only find them 
through becoming Wikipedia contributors, and those demographics carry over.

Dominic

On 9/15/11 9:17 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> Yes! I have never edited or contributed anything to wikiquote. I have 
> contributed to Wikisource, and I'm starting to think I'm the only 
> woman who ever has, even though it was two documents. I don't even 
> think there is much of anything related to women's history on 
> Wikisource...
>
> We were discussing in #wikimedia-gendergap a few days ago about the 
> need for more featured images of women and related subjects on 
> Commons. I kept rolling my eyes everytime I saw the ATV that was a 
> featured image the other day.
>
> I'm actually developing a wikipage that will showcase a collection of 
> topics that need expansion, watching, clean up, etc, and/or photos for 
> English Wikipedia, which I naturally assume will be the same for other 
> languages. Once it's a little fleshed out we can see if it's useful in 
> any way. I think it's interesting just to see what we're lacking 
> on...on top of the 1009232 other things I'm doing...
>
> -Sarah
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <carolmooredc at verizon.net 
> <mailto:carolmooredc at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Looking at my wikiquotes talk page for the first time in a while,
>     I was reminded that is another area women's contributions may not
>     be taken as seriously.
>
>     Example: the deletion in 2009 of poet Marcella Boccia's quotes
>     from English wikipedia after her article had been deleted from En
>     wikipedia.
>
>     Actually, I just checked and it's not in the Italian wikipedia
>     version either.  Despite
>     http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1
>     <http://www.google.com/search?ned=us&hl=en&q=Marcella+Boccia&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1>
>     notability in Italian I noted at time of deletion discussion.
>
>     So let's not forget Wikiquote!!
>
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