[Gendergap] Announcing Community Fellow Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to announce Sarah as our first Community Fellow for 2012, and our first fellowship specifically focused on the gender gap. I'm sure she'll be keeping this list updated on her work, but meanwhile you can read the full announcement on the Wikimedia blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/announcing-community-fellow-sarah-stierch/ Congratulations, Sarah, it's great to have you onboard!gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw moreWi kipedia editing parties by Siko (yes!!)
Cool! Any chance you'd want to say that as a comment on the blog post? (people never comment much there...would be nice to figure out how to generate some more public conversation that way). On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, keilanaw...@gmail.com keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: A friend and I did this a few weeks ago (without the wine, being underage and whatnot)! We cooked an Indian feast and as everything simmered, we settled in and wrote a couple articles together, one of which was a DYK a few days later. It was so fun and we are making plans to collaborate again via Skype! I think this is a great way to get women involved. Sent from my HTC One™ S on T-Mobile. America’s First Nationwide 4G Network. - Reply message - From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Gendergap] [New Blog] Let’s throw moreWi kipedia editing parties by Siko (yes!!) Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 12:17 PM Awesome blog by Siko about the recent Wikipedia editing party she held recently. She invited a small group of girlfriends over and they drank wine and edited Wikipedia! Inspiring enough that I've decided to have a Wiki, Wine with Women party at my house Friday for a group of girl friends! https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/23/lets-throw-more-wikipedia-editing-parties/ I'm going to be promoting the heck out of this concept for WikiWomen's History Month!!![1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* Visit sarahstierch.com http://sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Final WikiWomen's Collaborative post + end of my fellowship
Sarah, Thank you for being fearless and unflagging in your work this year, and for keeping your sense of humor and head above water while tackling ambitious projects and issues. I have seen all the ways you've helped move us closer to closing the gap by bringing new understanding, inspiration and strategies for supporting more women to edit. You've also taught me personally a lot about Wikipedia and have been a whole lot of fun to collaborate with. Here's to you, to ongoing gender gap projects, and to new projects yet to come! Siko On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to share my report about the WikiWomen's Collaborative with you. It's a project I developed as a way to engage and build community around experienced and potential women editors and contributors to Wikimedia projects. My fellowship ends this week, and I'll be writing a blog about my experience. But, please do know: I am so grateful to everyone who has been involved in the past year. Just knowing I had a community of people to come to really means a lot - it's been an emotional and remarkable experience. I'll be writing a more formal blog about the past year, soon. -- Here are my report: - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_report The highlight for me is seeing that women involved in the Collaborative started editing more than ever in September - the same time when the project launched. You can also find the main page for my fellowship here: - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Fellows/Sarah_Stierch I hope you'll join us in the project and get involved: - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative -- I am moving back to volunteer status in regards to my gender gap work. I am still doing public speaking, presentations and all the stuff that goes with spreading word about the importance of women's involvement. But, please do remember: I'm a volunteer again and have three jobs :) If you're curious as to what I'm up to right now: -I'm serving as US OpenGLAM Coordinator for the Open Knowledge Foundation -I'm doing a Wikipedian in Residency at the World Digital Library -I also run my own consulting firm where I work with public and private clients around the world doing museum curatorial work, marketing, lecturing, blahblahblah. I'm also hoping I can do some more projects with Wikimedia, so we'll see!! Thank you again for all of the support this list has given me. I am indebted. In wikilove, Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* *Museumist and open culture advocate* Visit sarahstierch.com http://sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Some nice news
Yay :-) And congratulations to you and your team, Sumana, on the OPWGSoC boost - it is really exciting to see the work pay off! On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions_sorted_by_number_of_interested_attendees - some of the most-wanted talks are Towards bridging the gender gap in Indian Wikimedia community and Recruiting Librarians and Archivists to Help Close the Wikipedia Gender Gap with Bridging the Gender Gap with Women Scientists a little further behind. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ombudsman_commission#Gender_neutrality has several people speaking up in favor of a more gender-neutral name. (Feel free to pipe up there.) The Wikimedia engineering department's participation in Outreach Program for Women internships https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women#Round_6 led to far more women and genderfluid people applying for the Google Summer of Code internships than we'd ever recruited before. Previous years: 0-2 non-spammy applications. This year: ~10. Practicing affirmative outreach and explicitly welcoming women really works. One applicant told me that #mediawiki is one of the few open source-related IRC channels she's felt comfortable and welcomed in. Various Wikimedian women are going to be speaking at Open Source Bridge next month http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/05/2013-speakers-list-is-here/ , including Sucheta Ghoshal, me, Alolita Sharma, and Valerie Aurora. So, we have a lot to do, but I just wanted to take a moment to say yay. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Renewing gender gap conversations on meta
Hi all, In July, we hosted a small gathering in San Francisco to consider the current state of the gender gap and brainstorm some initiatives that community and staff (WMF grantmakers, etc) might work on together in the coming year. After a shamefully long time,[1] notes from this meeting are finally up on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013 Please join inhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013#August_2013_and_beyond, improve, share your thoughts about what's there or add new ideashttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013#Brainstorm_of_ideasto the brainstorm list! If people are interested, we might build on this more together both on meta and at Diversity Conference in Berlin next month.[2] I'm also planning to host an IdeaLab session at Diversity Conference to work together on action plans for diversity-focused projects. If you aren't able to attend in person, perhaps you'd want to write up your favorite idea in the IdeaLab instead, to spark some more collaborations? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab Warm regards, Siko [1] Yes, it really did take me 3 months to finish removing an under-construction template and decide some things are just going to stay messy, sigh. [2] Reminder to register by Oct 20th, I understand the program schedule will be published later this week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Renewing gender gap conversations on meta
Rohini, I've been excited to see the India work plan develop and will be really interested to hear what comes next as plans develop into action! We've been wondering if you and others in the India community would want to partner with WMF to organize a gender gap event in Bangalore in February as followup to Diversity Conferenceit seems like having more ways to gather and grow the conversation in person a couple of times this year could be useful. And perhaps an affiliate org (go, Sydney!!) could help keep that happening over time too. Even though we don't have a focused gender gap grants program in particular (although WMF Engineering does have the Outreach Program for Women, which is awesomely getting more women involved in MediaWiki), I'd love to find ways to encourage more grant proposals for projects aimed at the gender gap coming into IdeaLab, IEG, etc...I wonder if we can organize some sort of 2014 campaign around this? WMF doesn't have staff whose full-time jobs are focused on this issue, that's true, but there are lots of us who care and do want to put time and energy towards this work as we're able. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hello everyone, Last month, I had put together a work plan for Gender gap activities in India: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_India_work_plan I would greatly appreciate it if you could add your suggestions, feedback and comments to the work plan or post them here. The strategy shared by Siko Bouterse is full of ideas I could incorporate into the work plan, and it addresses some of the challenges I have been thinking long and hard about. I am delighted to see that a Gender gap event in Indiahttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013#Short_Term_Strategy_.2F_Next_Stepscould be in the offing. :) Regards, Rohini -- Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap, Wikimedia Chapter (India) On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi all, In July, we hosted a small gathering in San Francisco to consider the current state of the gender gap and brainstorm some initiatives that community and staff (WMF grantmakers, etc) might work on together in the coming year. After a shamefully long time,[1] notes from this meeting are finally up on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013 Please join inhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013#August_2013_and_beyond, improve, share your thoughts about what's there or add new ideashttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_strategy_2013#Brainstorm_of_ideasto the brainstorm list! If people are interested, we might build on this more together both on meta and at Diversity Conference in Berlin next month.[2] I'm also planning to host an IdeaLab session at Diversity Conference to work together on action plans for diversity-focused projects. If you aren't able to attend in person, perhaps you'd want to write up your favorite idea in the IdeaLab instead, to spark some more collaborations? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab Warm regards, Siko [1] Yes, it really did take me 3 months to finish removing an under-construction template and decide some things are just going to stay messy, sigh. [2] Reminder to register by Oct 20th, I understand the program schedule will be published later this week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Videos and more from Diversity Conference
Hi all, I published a blog post today with some recap from the recent Diversity Conference in Berlin, which included gender gap discussions that are likely of interest to folks on this list: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/25/diversity-conference-brings-wikimedians-to-berlin/ Wikimedia Deutschland did a nice job documenting the event, so there are lots of ways to follow the presentations and other conversations that happened there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference/Documentation http://vimeo.com/album/2618583/sort:preset/format:thumbnail Cheers, Siko -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16
Congratulations on the new tool! It looks beautiful and is great to get a visual sense of activity like this :) On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, We now have a page for counting the number of edits that happened during the Women's History Month eventshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India/2014in India! The stats (of English Wikipedia) can be viewed here : http://wikiwomen.in/ The developer team will soon be adding features to this tool helping us to use this code for any edit-a-thon. If you have any suggestions or comments about the tool, please get in touch with the creators of the tool cc-d on this mail! Regards Netha On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, An online woman scientists edit-a-thon will happen on March 15 16 to write Wikipedia articles about notable women scientists from India. Everyone is welcome to participate! -- Forwarded message -- From: Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:59 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16 To: wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear all, India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in their respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still do not have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog posthttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/13/celebrating-womens-day-the-wiki-way/to know a little more. We are organizing a Women Scientists edit-a-thonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014)#Women_Scientists_Edit-a-thontomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you could also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to the existing list of scientists would go a long way too. Find more details about the event herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014). Please add your name as a participant and feel free to start editing over a cup of coffee :-) There is an opt inhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/17_YMl1bLV0ove3Dsn-LhNQkNNiszWpUag0Ko01tm_kI/viewformwe would like you to fill up so that we can understand editor behavior better. Please fill up this form if you are participating in the edit-a-thon. In case you have questions, do write to Nethahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Netha_Hussain, Parul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ParulThakur or Jephhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jeph_paul ! Thanks! Parul http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur http://happinessandfood.wordpress.com/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com http://nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com http://swethaambari.wordpress.com* -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com http://nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com http://swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] [Blog]: [Huffington Post U.K] : An interview with Emily Temple-Wood
-socialization in real life and being serious online., says Emily when asked about how she manages her time to be able to do a variety of real-life and online volunteering. She is also a Individual Engagement Granteehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG of the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia. In her role as a grantee, she is aiming to create a new model for bringing women into the Wikimedia movement and creating more content to fill the coverage gap with topics related to women, especially biographies of women. She is trying to change the gender situation on English Wikipedia where only around 10-25 percent of all contributors are women. She is also looking forward to create a best practice kit for running workshops on systemic bias. Systemic bias is an insidious problem on Wikipedia, where women, people of color, and non-Western topics are severely underrepresented. She thinks that her biggest contribution to the Wikipedia community has been helping to bring awareness about the systemic bias problem. She has attended three international conferences, where she presented her learnings and experiences in working with Wikipedia. She finds it exciting to get to travel around the world and meet amazing Wikipedians from different language communities. Emily thinks that women's voices are so important in this [Wikipedia] community and [women] need to speak up, especially because there are so few women participating in the movement. She asks women to trust in their own competence and jump in, and don't take criticism too hard, to be a successful writer on Wikipedia. You can view Emily's userpage on Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keilana. *Copyright notes: Image by Fuzheado (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons* *Follow Netha Hussain on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nethahussain http://www.twitter.com/nethahussain* FOLLOW UK TECH -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com http://nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com http://swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] New York Magazine article summaries the gender gap issue in one conversation
Agree with you, Fluffernutter and Anne. Here are some other stories about the event that the interviewer missed, by only focusing on one group's conversation: A small handful of women and allies worked their butts off to make this conference go well. Dorothy Howard brought every cool librarian in town, Jennifer Baek made a great event space happen. The conference put a friendly space policy front and center. Organizers made sure that gender gap LGBT topics were on the schedule. 3 of 4 keynote speakers were women, including Sumana who began the conference with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Adding these because I believe it is worth highlighting each other's efforts to make things suck less, while being clear that our gender gap and New York Magazine both still suck. Siko On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2014 16:56, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/love-and-drama-at-the-wikipedia-conference.html One quote, of many possible ones: “We're really the typical demographic, actually,” says Alex Stinson, back on the leather couches. “White, male techies with college degrees,” agrees Kevin Rutherford. “Not you, though,” he says, squinting at a young woman who has silently joined the group, pale with dyed black hair and a skeptical, Daria-like http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/06/redir.aspx?C=siqEisgg1EiT2llJkdzfjJeTmVYdVdEIU8bniJP-O9F0bAkwyWbDgU4MslzA9cO4HJ9cu_kznC8.URL=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fDaria expression. “Are you a contributor?” “Yes,” she says, her eyes narrowing. “Do you have a college degree?” Kevin asks. “Yes,” she says, a bit harder. “So you're like, completely out there,” he says, flustered. “In that you're not like us, but you have a college degree,” he adds hastily. “I mean, you are like us, but you’re not.” He sputters on for a few minutes. I don't suppose anyone knows who the daria-like female editor was? I think we collectively owe her an apology. Oh dear. I agree with you Fluffernutter. Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen at Wikimania
Traditionally it has been a WikiWomen's lunch, and we generally like to have a dedicated space at the conference for it. Ellie tells me she's looking into a room at the venue - I'd suggested lunchtime on Sunday August 10th, right before the gender workshops begin. Is a meetup page the expected way for organizing/advertising it this year? On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Edward Saperia e...@wikimanialondon.org wrote: Hello, Would anyone coming to Wikimania like to volunteer to host a meetup for WikiWomen? I think this has happened at most Wikimanias, but nobody has set one up for the coming one yet. https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email e...@wikimanialondon.org • facebook http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia • twitter http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Women's biographies at the main page's DYK (Did You Know?) section
Glad you're raising this issue, Rosie, and thinking about a grant-funded project to address it seems like a smart plan! Testing new ways for making engagement with DYK a more regular part of any workshops or other times where women's biographies are being worked on makes sense to me. My 1 and only DYK was for a woman's bio, but at the time I didn't know anything about the process (wouldn't have occurred to me it was something that a noob working on a short article could be part of). If someone else hadn't nominated, it wouldn't have happened. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Rosiestep Wiki rosiestep.w...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed this for years -- fewer women's biographies vs. men's in an average week at the DYK section of the main page. Maybe I've noticed this because I'm a highly prolific contributor to DYK. But I've wondered how many reader eyeballs land on the main page and notice the same thing? Some statistics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions Annually, there's a preponderance of women's biographies in March (Women's History Month). And during the rest of the year, there's the occasional set (6-7 hooks) or occasional day (2-3 sets) where the majority of the biographies are regarding women. But it's an uncommon occurrence over the course of a week. The reason seems simple: fewer women's biographies are being nominated by editors, so fewer are promoted, and fewer appear at DYK. It almost goes without saying that fewer women's biographies are created/expanded compared to men's but it's actually important to address this, as IMO, it's the crux of the problem. I am not suggesting and would not support setting limits on the number of men's biographies which appear at DYK. Instead, I'd like to believe that issue/problem recognition is the first step before we brainstorm some objectives, develop workplans (i.e. monthly edit-a-thons anyone?), and measure outcomes. I'm considering creating a proposal and applying for a grant to work on this percentage issue. Feedback? -Rosie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosiestep ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Fwd: Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals
Hi all, Seems like there have been a lot of concrete ideas coming up on this list in recent months! It would be great to have more gender-gap aimed project proposals in this new round of Individual Engagement grants. See below for more details and please don't hesitate to reach out if you want help getting together your submission. -- Forwarded message -- From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:26 AM Subject: Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you. The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the process. Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed enough for a grant? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab Also, IEG will be hosting three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events For inspiration, you can read more about past projects https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/ that received funding or review open proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing. We are excited to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Submit your proposal in September! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply Warm regards, Siko -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Collaborative Social Media + some other stuff
Welcome back, Sarah!! The WikiWomen's Collaborative wouldn't be so inspired without you :) On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've been feeling inspired (!!!) and have started re-maintaining the WikiWomen's Collaborative Twitter and Facebook. Despite my excessive bitterness, hahaha, I'm really missing the camaraderie and work that I was doing to engage a more diverse audience in participating in the free knowledge movement. Feel free to e-mail me off list if there are events, blog posts, press coverage, or calls to action you'd like me to post. I'll post in any language as long as there is also an English translation. If you already are a maintainer of either the page or Twitter, feel free to post. On Facebook we now have over 1,000 likes, and on Twitter we have 1,189 followers. You can find the two accounts here: https://twitter.com/wikiwomen https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative Like and follow us! On a personal note, ever since Adrianne and Cindamuse died and I earned my outsider within a group of outsiders status in January I haven't had the motivation to contribute to the two areas of work that I deeply care about in this world of free knowledge - women's engagement and GLAM. I'm trying to change that in myself, and not letting the men who tore me down get me down (or the mistakes that I have made in the past). For the past few months I've been contributing to WikiVoyage and Wikidata and I changed my username (back to my old username). No one notices me.. it's quiet. I'm even thinking about putting my feelers out for public speaking and workshops again, but, I might be a bad apple no one wants to hear from anymore :) As long as funding is available, I am very open minded to opportunities. If you hear of anything, or know of anyone looking to hear someone speak about lessons learned, the experiences had, evaluation practices, grantwriting, how revolution can and continues to take place in this community, or you just want a kick ass facilitator for your edit-a-thon let me know... 3 Thanks everyone, I appreciate it and the work you are all doing to change the world. Sarah -- www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Look who's in the paper!! :)
Great piece! Thank you Christine, for continually inspiring us :) And thanks, Sarah, for the link! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: The super awesome WikiWoman Christine Meyer is! This is a most excellent article - thank you Christine for your ongoing work! http://www.inlander.com/spokane/writing-her-place/Content?oid=2372780 Sarah -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] IEG - Community Notification
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Development/Renewal ( background in final report from first 6 months of Emily's project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_Scientists_Workshop_Development/Final ) I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on this as well, as I'll be making a decision on the renewal soon. Cheers! Siko On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Keilana keilanaw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gendergap Mailing List friends, I wanted to let you all know about my IEG renewal request to further expand my successful program of workshop series and teaching. It's still a work in progress and I would be very interested in hearing feedback! Thanks all, Emily ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Rosiestep in Huffington Post (yay good news)
Wonderful post by Netha, and Rosiestep never fails to inspire. Thanks for sharing :) On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:16 PM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: Makes me smile. Lightbreather On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: yay rays of sunshine :) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/rosie-stephenson-the-woma_b_6302636.html -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries
Along similar lines, this pilot training has been suggested for admins: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap_admin_training And The Ada Initiative said they were interested in providing training for such a pilot. WMF grantmakers like myself would be pleased to see something like this develop into a proposal, if folks felt it was worth trying. It might make sense to pilot at the admin level before focusing on functionaries like stewards, because admins have more day-to-day interactions with individual editors (and thus more opportunities to facilitate an on-wiki environment that supports diversity). On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Reguyla regu...@gmail.com wrote: I think this might be a good idea but it would be pretty hard to implement and I think, unnecessary. Most of the functionaries got to where they are because they have a calm demeanor and generally are fair in how they treat others. Additionally, its not usually the functionaries who are the problem. So without requiring the editors to perform the diversity training, I'm not sure how much it would help. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know if this has been floated before - apologies if so - but: Part of the problem we have is the sheer depth of ignorance among otherwise well-intentioned community members. This depth of ignorance is naturally shared by the people who play leadership roles in the community. So we end up with stewards, arbitrators and bureaucrats who potentially end up reinforcing the gender gap problem because they just have no clue how the structure they maintain can sometimes be a tool to exclude people. How about offering some form of diversity training to functionaries to help broaden perspectives and raise understanding? Obviously, from the point of view of supporting them to do their difficult and fairly thankless roles better, rather than beating them with diversity sticks. It could happen (indeed, WMF could make it happen with some volunteer input); could it help? Chris ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Rosiestep in Huffington Post (yay good news)
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight rosiestep.w...@gmail.com wrote: A big thank you to Netha for conducting the interview, and thanks to this list group for your support. I don't edit in a vacuum so knowing you are in my wikilife is important to me. Again, thank you. Will my interview inspire more women to edit? Don't know. But I do know we need the press to spin out more positive stories about wikiwomen and why we edit and how we work it into our lives. The HufPo interview and the Slate GGTF piece were published on the same day. If a woman read both articles, how would it affect her decision to click the edit button? ... and if the reader were a man, how would it affect his decision? It would be interesting if citizen-journalists posted some youtubes asking Joe Public to read the 2 articles and then give an opinion on how likely they would be to click Wikipedia's edit button. This may be a good idea for an IEG... how press coverage of Wikipedia effects the decision to click the edit button. It interests me; would it interest others? Has it been done? Interesting idea - I understand that some folks in the past have worried that talking about either the gender gap or editor decline in the press would make the issue worse, rather than encourage more people to get involved. One of the things Sarah and I talked about when the WikiWomen's Collaborative started was a desire to raise up more stories of real wikiwomen. I'm not sure how one would actually research a question like this, or if similar studies have been done for other communities in the past, but if you're interested why not start writing up the idea in IdeaLab https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab and see where it goes? -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Regular editathons in Sweden about women and literature
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[Gendergap] Help launch the Inspire Grants Campaign in March 2015
Hi all, During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign Our goals are two-fold: 1. Experiment with running scalable themed campaigns in IdeaLab to incubate more initiatives aimed at having a focused collective impact. 2. Proactively support community initiatives aimed at increasing gender diversity in contributors to, and content of, Wikimedia projects. Why are we piloting with a gender gap theme? A variety of initiatives are needed to increase diversity and reduce systemic bias on Wikimedia projects, but so far these haven’t emerged organically at scale. Without taking time to focus together on increasing gender diversity in our content and contributors, this trend is likely to continue. WMF’s Individual Engagement Grants and Project and Event Grants could support such initiatives, and we're interested to learn how specifically inviting proposals in this area can have an impact. March is WikiWomen’s History Month, and it’s a great time to focus extra attention and energy together on addressing the gender gap. We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers to join our team in the following roles: 1. Community organizers: Spread the the word about the campaign to your local communities, maintain a friendly space in IdeaLab, facilitate development of ideas and project teams. (March) 2. Translators: Translate campaign content and gender gap resources into your language. This is a global campaign, so all languages are welcome. Some languages we’d particularly like to be able to support include: Spanish, Arabic, Malayalam, Telugu, and Ukrainian. (February and March) 3. Funding committee: Facilitate development of ideas to grant proposals, support idea-creators to improve proposals, greenlight projects for funding via either Individual Engagement Grants or Project Event Grants. (March and April) If you’re interested in any of the above roles, please signup under “Participants” on the planning page or email Siko or Alex by February 10th. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign#Get_involved Warm regards, The Inspire Team -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Strong support for grants directly related to addressing the gender gap
Hi Lightbreather, One of my hopes is that writing up ideas like yours in IdeaLab during the campaign could help you better gage interest and opposition to something like this, as you pointed people to the idea for feedback - one of the reasons for running a focused, time-bound campaign is to get lots of eyeballs on issues and solutions from across the movement, as that's been a helpful strategy for IEG in past rounds. As you laid out the idea and plan there, you'd hopefully be able to see both endorsing interest from folks who might find a space like this helpful, and also better understand broader concerns or policies standing in the way that may or may not have come up on this mailing list. I've never yet seen a truly innovative idea that EVERYONE agrees on, of course (in fact, disagreement has sort of turned into one of my gut-checks for whether something is actually innovative), but seeing both kinds of perspectives on an IEG proposal generally helps me decide which experiments are worthwhile funding risks to take, and which ones simply aren't going to go anywhere. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:34 AM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: I put my name down as a volunteer back in October - October 7, to be precise. On New Year's Eve I asked the simple question: Is it possible to start a Wikipedia project that's open to women, or people who identify as women? There are a handful of people on this list who are opposed to the idea, but I for one would have loved such a thing when I first started actively editing. Further, upon reading WP:PROJECT and nothing jumps out at as prohibiting a WP:WOMEN project. Sarah Stierch suggested proposing it. Heather Walls, who designed the Teahouse, could maybe help to make a similar, women-only space? I would be very much interested in helping with such a project, but I don't know where to start. *First thing*, I suppose, would be a broad survey to see if other Wikipedia women would be interested in a project tasked by women, for women, to recruit, encourage, and support other women editors. *Not* about any specific topics, or points-of-view - because I think women's interests and POVs are as varied as men's - but to increase the numbers of women editing, and to provide a refuge when you just want to talk *with other women* about whatever it is you want to talk about that's WP related. Because even though I believe we may share interests and POVs with men, I think (and the evidence shows) that women *in general* (that is, far more women than men) prefer a different communication style than has developed here under 85% to 90% male participation. Lightbreather On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for putting this out here, Risker. I've been waiting for my blood pressure to drop a bit before posting a happy announcement of the plan to this list :) Glad to hear that folks are excited. I'm really looking forward to what comes next! We're going to need some help to make this first campaign happen, so next week I'll be back with a bit of a more formal ask and some further details about ways to get involved in the pre-campaign planning we're doing in January and February. One thing to think about: we'll want some extra volunteers with gender-gap experience to serve on the committee helping select these grants. If you aren't planning to execute a project yourself, but would like to help others develop ideas into proposals and proposals into grants, please be in touch with me, or join on the project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes! Thank you Risker for the positive energy. This is what I want in 2015!! This is GREAT news!! I can't wait to see what happens. -Sarah On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: (Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit) Well, it's official - the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project Event Grants (PEG) will be focused almost exclusively for a 3-month period on providing financial support and mentorship for requests focused specifically at addressing the gender gap. The funding allocated - $250,000, roughly equivalent to the annual budget of many large chapters - is very significant and should help to promote good experimentation throughout this area. If you've been thinking about a project you'd like to organize that is specifically gender-gap related, now's the time to start drafting your ideas and asking for support from the broader grants and GG community. You'll need to describe your idea, set some targets, and collaborate with others as a team for the best chance of success. In particular, IEGs are intended to be experiments, and there's a recognition that some are going to be successful, while others (even if they look good on paper
Re: [Gendergap] Gender gap blamed for shuttting down grantmaking
the experiment topic (whatever that topic happens to be) would be left unconsidered for months, even if it has some focus on the experiment topic. I'm pretty sure there would be the same reaction if the topic was bots or GLAM or Sister Projects or Research. I've got a bit of a concern that the process may be too exclusionary in some ways. For example, WLM has historically had higher-than-average participation by women, especially in certain countries, so one might think that it could rationally fall into the catchment for gender gap funding; however, it's been specifically excluded. This is coming as a huge surprise to a lot of people, and I think with good reason. The Grants portal is notoriously unnavigable, and without a direct link to the page where this particular project was discussed, it's next to impossible to find it.[1] The Grants portal doesn't have a general administrative page for announcements or discussions that apply broadly (as this does), and you literally can't get from one section of the portal to another without leaving the portal and starting over. And the page discussing the project doesn't actually describe it in the same way that the emails do - the timeline is quite different, and there's nothing that says other than very time-sensitive grants, we won't consider anything else. One other thing I found odd here: In the first half of this year, IEG and PEG combined have spent only 9% of funds on projects aiming to directly impact this gap and less than ⅓ of our grantee project leaders have been women. While the dollar value of the funding is roughly proportional to the percentage of women participating in Wikimedia projects, I was actually extremely impressed by the fact that almost a third of grantee project leaders are women. That's a dramatically higher percentage than we have ever seen actively participating in Wikimedia projects overall. Again, I'm a bit concerned that more general programs that could be funded and are known to have attracted higher than average percentage of women participants wouldn't be included in any calculation of funding focused on gender gap issues. I can't speak for anyone else, but I genuinely do not believe that women only want to work in areas directly related to the gender gap. For example Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship,[2] a current grant, should be at least as interesting to women as to men, and has the potential to have at least as significant an effect in retaining new women editors as new men editors. But it's not counted as a gender gap activity. Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Strong support for grants directly related to addressing the gender gap
Thanks for putting this out here, Risker. I've been waiting for my blood pressure to drop a bit before posting a happy announcement of the plan to this list :) Glad to hear that folks are excited. I'm really looking forward to what comes next! We're going to need some help to make this first campaign happen, so next week I'll be back with a bit of a more formal ask and some further details about ways to get involved in the pre-campaign planning we're doing in January and February. One thing to think about: we'll want some extra volunteers with gender-gap experience to serve on the committee helping select these grants. If you aren't planning to execute a project yourself, but would like to help others develop ideas into proposals and proposals into grants, please be in touch with me, or join on the project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Yes! Thank you Risker for the positive energy. This is what I want in 2015!! This is GREAT news!! I can't wait to see what happens. -Sarah On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: (Changing the perspective on the previous thread a bit) Well, it's official - the Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project Event Grants (PEG) will be focused almost exclusively for a 3-month period on providing financial support and mentorship for requests focused specifically at addressing the gender gap. The funding allocated - $250,000, roughly equivalent to the annual budget of many large chapters - is very significant and should help to promote good experimentation throughout this area. If you've been thinking about a project you'd like to organize that is specifically gender-gap related, now's the time to start drafting your ideas and asking for support from the broader grants and GG community. You'll need to describe your idea, set some targets, and collaborate with others as a team for the best chance of success. In particular, IEGs are intended to be experiments, and there's a recognition that some are going to be successful, while others (even if they look good on paper) are not going to produce results. The key is ensuring that there is some learning derived from the experiments. Don't be afraid to try something! Risker/Anne ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Inspire Campaign launches today!
On Mar 5, 2015 6:22 AM, Katherine Casey fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com wrote: If memory serves, another survey (not sure if before or after the 9%, or where to find it, off the top of my head - maybe someone else remembers?) came up with something like 13% female. So my guess is they added in some margin of error, and decided less than 20% was the most accurate way to characterize maybe 9% or 13% or something in that vicinity, give or take some percentage points. This, exactly. Maybe 8.5, 13 or even 16% or so depending on the methodology doesn't fit on a banner, where brevity is key. We simply don't have one good precise stat that I'm comfortable citing succinctly, other than its complicated, and under 20%, and still a problem. I don't expect the 2012 editor survey results will give us much more, honestly, than we already know. I'd like to see us working towards a 2015/6 stat though, preferably via repeatable methods that allow for tracking trends over time :) Would be great to see some additional ways of thinking about measuring the gap, too, as folks like Max Klein have done with Wikidata. Research proposals are welcome in this campaign. Siko On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Neotarf neot...@gmail.com wrote: Where does the less than 20% number come from? The last survey I see is https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/December_2011_Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_topline.pdf this one from 2011. On page 34 the numbers break down to 90% male, 9% female, 1% transgender. Sure 9% is less than 20%, but it is also less than 70% or 100%. This seems really misleading about the scope of the problem. Is there more recent research that has been released, that would justify the use of the 20% number? The last I heard, we were still waiting for the results of the 2012 survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_2012 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate in the campaign on Meta-wiki by sharing your ideas, skills and feedback, and by helping to spread the word in your local communities. The campaign runs until March 31. All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Grants are available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this campaign that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. We hope experienced community members will also watch the IdeaLab pages to help keep the discussions positive and constructive. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help our projects better represent the world’s knowledge! Cheers, Alex the Inspire Team -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects
This is the grant proposal referenced at the end of that article (currently under review as part of Inspire): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/More_Female_Architects_on_Wikipedia On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:31 PM, J Hayes slowki...@gmail.com wrote: here is the list of architects they were working on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_architects lots of work done on Australians, only one deleted one saved from AfC by Gobonobo On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: https://sourceable.net/advocates-for-women-architects-battle-wikipedia-trolls/# . According to event organizer Lori A. Brown, one of the event organizers and an associate professor of the Syracuse University School of Architecture https://sourceable.net/womens-architecture-survey-reveals-rise-in-discrimination/, the project was a timely response to online trolls in the Wikipedia community who would seek to diminish the contribution of women to the architecture profession. “We realized it is time to take action,” said Brown, pointing to “a friend’s experience this summer linguistically wrestling with Wikipedia editing trolls who were doing their utmost to un-write women out of a certain section of activism.” CM DC ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] Outcome of IdeaLab/Inspire campaign
What Kerry said, particularly about using the survey to share your feedback on the experience. In terms of outcomes, here is some more info as of the end of March: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/03/inspire-campaign-new-ideas/ Moving many ideas into action will require more time and community discussion, no doubt. That said, by end of April we'll know which proposals will be given Inspire grant funding in order to execute in the near term. Around then we'll also put out a report on what we learned from the process of running an idea campaign (including your feedback via survey). Longer term impact of new initiatives coming out of the campaign will need to be assessed in the coming year. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: I don’t think there has been any decision on which projects are being supported. The survey is about the process, and would provide you with ample opportunity to mention giving up in the face of hatred. Kerry -- *From:* gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *LB *Sent:* Tuesday, 14 April 2015 9:57 AM *To:* Gender gap mailing list *Subject:* [Gendergap] Outcome of IdeaLab/Inspire campaign My arm is in a cast/splint. Not in good spirits, not getting around well. Got a request to participate in a survey re the Inspire campaign. Made me wonder: What was the result? Which, if any, ideas are going to be supported. I gave up on WikiProject Women because there was so much hatred thrown at the idea and I had no idea how to proceed, even though a lot of people did support it. Finally: Could someone please tell me if this posts? I don't seem to get things that I post to this list! Lightbreather ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?
Super interesting, thanks for sharing Jason. Can Wikipedia increase the number of new female editors four-fold and increase new editor retention four-fold every month for three years? On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.org wrote: Interesting! ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Report on what we've learned from Inspire so far
Hi all, We've published a report and blog post sharing some findings from the Inspire campaign so far: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign As always, your thoughts are welcome! Warm regards, Siko -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] I'd like to hear about the Ally Skills Workshop
/gendergap ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- Siko Bouterse Director of Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
