I guess I should also mention that Wikimania last year was in Israel, which could also be a factor in few or no Iranian attending.
Ryan Kaldari On 1/1/12 12:04 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I don't know much personally about women's participation from Iran, > but I have a couple tidbits to add: Regarding the fundraiser, Iran is > a special case due to the U.S. embargo. Although we actually get a > decent amount of traffic from Iran, we do not run banner ads in Iran, > nor do we accept donations due to the embargo. We also can't give > travel scholarships to people in Iran, so there probably weren't any > people from Iran at Wikimania last year, which is where most of the > appeal interviews happened. It would probably be possible for a > non-U.S. chapter to cover some of these gaps, but unfortunately the > Foundation's hands are tied on the matter. > > Regarding articles on women from Iran, I did notice that en.wiki has > no article on Nooshabeh Amiri, the journalist and political dissident. > Otherwise, I would say en.wiki's coverage of Iranian women (and > related articles) is better than average for that area of the world. > > One person that might be good to contact is User:Mehran on English > Wikipedia. He is active on both fa.wiki and en.wiki and speaks both > languages well. He might be able to act as a liaison. > > Ryan Kaldari _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
