Thanks, Romaine. Your thoughts on the gender gap echo some of my own, as expressed here:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/08/26/why-women-have-no-time-for-wikipedia/ I've taken the liberty of crossposting the relevant parts of your post to the Gendergap list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2015-February/005468.html Best, Andreas On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open > Source Software Developers' European Meeting, organised as the university > ULB in Brussels, Belgium! We had there a stand with flyers about Wikipedia, > Wikimedia, Wikimedia Belgium, and a lot of goodies. > > In the Wikimedia movement we often discuss the Gendergap, as one of the > gaps we have. Wikipedia/Wikimedia looks very much likes FOSDEM, but there > the Gendergap is even larger. Wikipedia/Wikimedia needs a more social > development, we need software which enables users to form groups in an easy > way. The female contributors to Wikipedia do like two things: having in > person meetings to socialize with other editors, and second they need more > social software. The education extension is a primitive form of what is > needed. We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace > Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the > recent changes of edits of group members only, to be able to actively > interact with other group members and having a long term participation in > Wikipedia. Having software where users, interest groups or a group of > editors from an external organisation can work together. > > To translate it for the tech community: Wikipedia needs a kind of > *phabricator* with groups, tasks, assignments, and so on, but then for on > Wikipedia itself. > > Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but we need to create an > environment in what we enable people to have a collaboration on a more > visible way (if people want to). > > That is my clear conclusion after this conference where I spoke with a lot > of women about editing on Wikipedia, but also based on many project of the > past years we organised. > > > At FOSDEM I also spoke with someone from the Dutch government who is > working on creating an open source free licensed dictionary for words that > are used in specific parts of the government and they like to do a project > with Wikimedia! > They also like to re-use the data from Wiktionary, but they experienced > that that was a bit difficult. So a large donation of words for Wiktionary > is on its way! > > > If anyone is interested to go to next years FOSDEM and want to help at the > stand, where we also like to include more information about MediaWiki, let > us know! > > Romaine > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
