> I'm looking for a rationale as to why men are needed on a list dedicated > to > help increase female participation. Most of the successes I'm seeing in > this area comes from women. Look at Wikipedia4Women. It is run by > women. > Maybe I just can't see all the wonderful things men are doing. It would > be > great to get a man's perspective on how men are specifically helping to > address this gender gap: > > 1. What women's focused content have you, as a man, improved on > Wikipedia > and other projects since joining this mailing list?
I created the article Metaverse Mod Squad a very interesting business started and run by a woman. I updated Homaidan Al-Turki an article I worked on back in November, 2006. > > 2. What offline events specifically have you, as a man, created and run > specifically run that were marketed at women to help specifically > increase > the participation of women on Wikipedia? > > 3. What online events specifically have you, as a man, created and run > specifically run that were marketed at women to help specifically > increase > the participation of women on Wikipedia? > > 4. As a man, how much time do you spend thinking about the content of > your > posts and how people, who specifically identify as women, will view the > content they post? Do you worry about your posts being viewed as using > gendered language, and insulting to women? Much thinking, particularly about splitting (psychology) > > 5. What help have you provided to women on this list, when the women > have > expressed concerns? (Note: Responding to an e-mail does not count.) How > many good article situations that people have mentioned have you stepped > in > to help with? How many articles, categories, policy pages have you, as a > man, gone to edit because of requests for help on the list? This edit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Category_talk:National_sports_teams_of_Australia&diff=prev&oldid=419029171 > > 6. What have you, as a man, done to help make women, specifically > because > the contributor is female, become administrators on all WMF projects > since > joining the list? > > 7. How many times have you, as a man, contacted other men offlist > because > of the other man's onlist behaviour being problematic and discriminatory > against women, working counter to the goal of helping increase women's > participation on Wikipedia? > > 8. As a man, how many contacts have you provided to women on the list to > help them accomplish of increasing women's participation on Wikipedia? > As a > man, how much assistance have you provided with web programming? As a > man, > how much financial assistance you have provided towards women run > projects > to increase women's participation on Wikipedia? As a man, how much legal > assistance have you provided for women trying to run these projects? > > I can't wait to hear about all the good work that men on the list have > been > doing to help increase the participation rates of women! > > > -- > mobile: 0412183663 > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com So a bit. Fred _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
