I doubt I'd attend any event purporting to recruit women that nevertheless limited itself to "people who were born female"; that's very much a type of exclusion I'm uncomfortable with. In general, however, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from arranging a women-centric (or even women-only) edit-a-thon, or from reaching out to women in a certain field (via linkedin, maybe?) to urge them to get editing. Those are both cool ideas, and I suspect you'd get a lot of support, both from the WMF and from the gendergap community in general, in setting such things up. NYC would be, I suspect, a particularly fertile ground for gendergap-specific meetups; there's enough of nearly every demographic around there to fill some seats for a moderately-sized edit-a-thon, and the WMNYC board appears willing to work with minority-focused groups..
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote: > See also this article: "AfroCrowd: The Black Wikipedia For People of > African Descent" http://kreyolicious.com/afrocrowd/17531/ > > One of the drawbacks of GLAM is that people are just making a few edits, > and leaving, rather than becoming long-term editors. There may be chances > for followup here that we are missing. Is the wiki-world ready for > "WomanCrowd: The Women's Wikipedia for People Who Were Born Female"? Or > maybe more realistically, ways for women in a particular cluster of > professions to network with other women in their field, not to mention > professional men who are supportive enough of women to come to one of these > events (and who also might just happen to control access to career > advancement). > > I have to say, though, that I totally support the idea of a Haitian > Creole-language Wikipedia. This language barrier was a huge problem a few > years ago, when there was an increased number of Haitians entering the U.S. > after the earthquake in Haiti. The problem is the same with other > creoles--instruction is usually given in one of the prestige languages--in > this case French--rather than the individual's native or local village > language, which makes communication and learning extremely difficult. > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Pharos <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yes, the idea is to be extra inclusionary by reaching out to all these >> groups explicitly, and in particular to representing different cultural >> identities in rather non-monolithic African American / African Diasporic >> communities. >> >> Thanks, >> Pharos >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Neotarf" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I've never seen editithons that exclude people before. I've been to a >>> couple of black history events, and all were welcomed, although of course >>> there was a very high proportion of African descent. >>> >>> I think the point was actually to be extra inclusionary: to cover all of >>> the above not just a subset when recruiting new editors. So potential >>> recruits don't think but I'm not really {{label}} and exclude themselves. >>> >>> I'm pretty sure others won't be excluded but these events will be >>> *focused* on topics related to those groups and editors with some sort of a >>> connection to Africa. To address biases similarly to women focused outreach >>> but with a twist thrown in: adding a new language to Wikipedia too, they >>> started already Garifuna Wikipedia on incubator. >>> >>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cab >>> >>> -Jeremy >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gendergap mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >>> visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please >> visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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