Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/projects

Below are listings of projects relevant to closing the "Gender Gap". They are run by the Wikimedia Foundation or volunteers at Wikimedia.org and English-language Wikipedia.

Wikimedia.org projects

Gender gap projects

• Gender Gap project at Wikimedia and related pages:

• Gender Gap Stories
• Gender Gap Manifesto
• Gender Gap Policy Revolution
• Gender gap strategy page reviews three years of women's meetings on strategy.
• List of proposals for more female editors 2011
• Gender Gap email list details

• Women on Wikipedia Month (For example: Category: Womens History Month, India 2014)
• Women on Wikipedia Week
• WikiWomen's Collaborative

• Wikiwomens Collaborative report, phase 1
• Wikiwomen blog at Wikimedia

• WikiWomen Camp 2012

• Category:WikiWomenCamp - women perspective by country

• 2013 Gender gap India work plan 2013
• What Gender Is Wikipedia (Gender in languages)
• See also Category:Gender gap

Diversity projects

• Wikimediafoundation Answers: "Foundation: How does the Wikimedia Foundation support diversity?", accessed August 12, 2014
• Charting Diversity main page links to Charting Diversity study mentioned above.

• Diversity Dialogue page

• Diversity Conference 2014

• Diversity Conference 2014 documentation
• Diversity Conference 2014 videos
• Wikimedia blog entry about Diversity Conference 2014

Outreach project

• Outreach.Wikimedia main page

  (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums attracts a lot of women in these fields

  Education project attracts a lot of women educators

• Outreach program for women presentation at Wikimedia Foundation meeting, February 7, 2013. Program is part of the FOSS Outreach Program for Women at Mediawiki.org which works to get more women involved in open source software engineering. The parent organization's page is Outreach Program for Women - GNOME Wiki!

Wikimedia blog entries

• Sage Ross, Wikipedia’s gender gap, February 1, 2011
• LiAnna Davis, Campus Ambassador program tackles gender gap, March 31, 2011
• Sarah Stierch, Women, we can do it: A conversation with Anastasia Lvova, October 16, 2012
• Sarah Stierch, Wikiwomen Unite, September 26, 2012
• Sarah Stierch, Wikipedia Club Pune celebrates WikiWomen Day, November 5th, 2012
• Samir Sharbaty, “Egyptian students help narrow gender gap on Wikipedia”, December 9, 2013
• Amanda Menking, Creating Safe Spaces, July 14, 2014
• Lodewijk Gelauff, Sixty ways to help new editors, September 4, 2014

Sue Gardner essays

Sue Gardner was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation) from 2007 to 2014 and lead the Wikimedia Foundation's initial efforts to close the gender gap. These essays from her blog provide an insight on her thinking about the gender gap during that period.

• Sue Gardner, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Five ways to encourage women to edit Wikipedia, personal blog, November 14, 2010
• Sue Gardner, Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words), personal blog, February 19, 2011
• Sue Gardner, On editorial judgment, and empathy, personal blog,September 28, 2011
• Top 10 Reasons to Encourage more Women Participation in Wikipedia, February 8, 2011

Wikimania

• Wikimania. The last several years have included several workshops and speeches about the gendergap.
• WikiWomen's lunches have been held at several Wikimanias

En.Wikipedia Gender gap projects

Wikiprojects

See links to English-language Wikipedia Gender gap-related wikiprojects on the Gender gap task force main page.

Resources

See links to English-language Wikipedia Gender gap-related resources on the Gender gap task force main page.

Sign Post articles

• Widespread discussions about the low participation of women in Wikipedia, February 7, 2011
• In the News: How to achieve a 94% female contributor ratio on a wiki, March 7, 2011
• WikiProject report: Talking with WikiProject Feminism, by Mabeenot, March 7, 2011
• Recent research: Gender gap connected to conflict aversion and lower confidence among women, February 27, 2012
• Recent research: Survey participation bias analysis: More Wikipedia editors are female, married or parents than previously assumed, July 31, 2013
• Audio interview with Lila Tretikov, Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director, includes comments on the gender gap, June 25, 2014

Wikipedia articles

• Criticism of Wikipedia#Gender bias
• Gender bias on Wikipedia
• Sex ratio: gender imbalance
• Gender-neutral pronoun: Modern solutions
• Gender neutral language policy proposal

Relevant essays

• Wikipedia is Also a Woman (related to Women on Wikipedia Month on Wikimedia.
• See also Category:Feminist essays

Women-related article lists

• See Category:Women and List of lists of women.
• Wikiproject Countering Systemic Bias Open Tasks/Women and women's studies
• Wikproject Feminism Open Tasks
• Wikiproject Gender Studies Article alerts
• Missing women list - done May 2015
• User:Dsp13's List of womenarticles needing creation
• User:99of9's Chart of articles regarding Forbes "100 power women".
• List by User:Rosiestep of Spanish language Wikipedia articles about women that need English versions

Workshops and Edit-a-thons

(Small sample of selected events of interest.)

• Wikipedia:Workshop for Women
• Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon includes List_of_edit-a-thons in English or in English-speaking countries
• GLAM/Case studies/Smithsonian Institution Archives/Women in Science Edit-a-thon, April 2012
• Matthew Roth Fem-Tech Edit-a-thon sparks discussions about Wikipedia gender gap, Blog.Wikimedia, November 26, 2012
• Nicole Swinford, College Hosts ‘Feminist, Anti-Racist Wikipedia Edit-a-thon’, Chapman University, "TheCollegeFix.com", December 3, 2012 (“Wikistorm”)
• Siko Bouterse, Let’s throw more Wikipedia editing parties, Blog.Wikimedia, January 23, 2013
• D. McGaughey-Summers, Taking On Wikipedia’s Bias, regarding heckling at a New York University Wikiwomen event, June 20th, 2013
• Hack for change - A Hackathon for women's rights, December 2013, Wikimedia Chapter (India) sponsored edit-a-thon regarding violence against women

• See report by L. Sarah, Taking back the tech – using Wikipedia to stop violence against women, Rising voices, December 2013

• Robby Soave, Wikipedia is ‘very masculine,’ so feminists pledge to fix it, Daily Caller, February 2, 2014
• Avishay Artsy, Edit-a-thons aim to erase Wikipedia’s gender gap, KCRW, February 12, 2014
• Upping the Female Quotient: Berkeley Edit-a-thon Recruits and Trains New Wikipedians, California magazine, April 4, 2014
• Jessica Pressler, Love and Drama at the Wikipedia Conference, New York Magazine, June 6, 2014 (Re: Wikiconference USA 2014)
• August 2014 Canberra "Wikibomb" information
• See also Category:WikiWomen events
• See also India Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon!, March 9, 2014; India has very active women's program

Help pages

• Wikipedia:Help main help page leads to all resources
• Wikipedia:Teahouse answers especially new editors questions; formed with new women editors in mind
• Wikipedia:Help_desk answers specific questions for editors old and new
• Wikipedia:Editor assistance answers specific questions for editors old and new
• Wikipedia:Dispute resolution outlines processes for dealing with disputes, including a list of noticeboards and how and when to use them
• Wikimedia Outreach Bookshelf has many tutorial resources for this and other Wikimedia projects
• Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, explains various Wikipedia processes
• "Editing Wikipedia", 20-page brochure in downloadable PDF format

Audio and video

• Wikimedia outreach tutorial videos
• How to Edit a Wikipedia Article
• Editing on Wikipedia, Adrianne Wadewitz, Vimeo.com, 2013

Images

• Change the Ratio
• Yes we can edit

Civility issues

These are of particular interest to many women and men.

At Wikimedia Foundation

• Terms of Use - Wikimedia Foundation

At Wikimedia.org

• Terms of Use: Civility and related minefields
• Friendly space policy (Note: Discussion about overly vague language might be appropriate.)
• Andrea Weckerle, Foreward by Jimmy Wales, Civility in the Digital Age: How Companies and People Can Triumph over Haters, Trolls, Bullies and Other Jerks, Que Publishing, 2013,, various pages.ISBN 978-0-13-313498-8
• Jimmy Wales, Speech on Civility to Wikimania 2014, London, August 11, 2014, (unofficial transcript) and video of the speech

At English language Wikipedia

• Terms of Use - Wikimedia Foundation
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Template:Civility
• Discussion of close of Wikquette Assistance board (September 2012) which some women believe needs to be reinstated in some form
• Wikipedia-wide RfC on Civility enforcement started end of 2012 that stalled out by end of 2013; included proposals to eliminate civility enforcement
• Wikproject Editor Retention sees civility as a major issue, including as discussed in this thread on dealing with bullying
• Wikipedia:Dispute resolution also outlines processes for dealing with chronic or acute incivility
• Dispute resolution noticeboard for content disputes only, which often lead to incivility