Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

Thanks Jonathan, Roger and David (and anyone else who has responded on this, apologies if I've forgotten you!) Womanthology have been in touch with the office again today and I am going to be responding to some of their questions from an organisational perspective - however I'm sure input from

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

Really? I think you haven't thought this through Richard - (although as a bloke you could be wrong :-) ). Women in Red was started because some felt that the lack of gender equality in Wiki was a problem caused by the low number of female editors. It was thought that we should encourage women to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

I was one of the helpers at Alice's women in red event at Imperial last week. I'll drop her a note. I'm sure she and I suspect the lady from Imperial would be happy to talk to Womanthology. Regards WereSpielChequers On 11 Mar 2018, at 14:49, Richard Nevell wrote:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

Hi David, I started Women in Red which moved the needle from 14% to 17.49%. She can see the twitter page at #wikiwomeninred and there is a women in red Wikipedia page. We can also talk about the work we hsave done with United Nations, Unesco, cambridge uni, wikimedia uk, ng, fr, ca, etc and the

[Wikimediauk-l] Womanthology would like to run something on Wikipedia's efforts to fix the gender gap in our editing and coverage

Got a call on Friday from Fiona Tatton from Womanthology. She was interested in talking to someone who's worked on improving representation of women in Wikipedia, and editing Wikipedia. Coverage is basically talking to individuals about what they do. I'm pretty sure this'll be a positive for our