Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2013/Documentation/roundup gender women

Roundup-Session 1 - Gender Diversity : women (best practices & new ideas)

1. What project has worked well and why?

Wikipedia Education Program

• success: lots of content; Arab World 85% female, US/Canada 65% female
• why: women are in higher education; specific outreach to women-heavy disciplines; staff-led project)

GLAM

• success: lots of content added
• why: women are naturally aligned to GLAM; mission aligned

thematic editathons

• success: retaining existing editors
• why: is on a theme

friendly space policies

• success: diverse group of people feel secure
• why: stated policy; follow-through on violations of friendly space policies

Blog profiles of wiki women

• success: cheap/easy way to feature women
• why: motivated for women and gives community face of women

1,001 Arabic Words (Serbia program)

• success: 9 women translating words on Wiktionary
• why:
  • women are more patient
  • lower barrier

2. What new ideas result from the conference?

Sister projects often have lower barriers to entry! include sister projects in editathons Wikidata

• microcontributions
• friendly community

Wikivoyage

• welcoming community, easier to contribute, language can be more creative

work with universities, aligned organizations Female scientist specific events Invite women to editathons and they can bring 1 man each

• bring friendly men
• works well in open source coding workshops

Online private socialization spaces, invite-only, for groups doing targeted diversity outreach WikiWomen's User Group

• global
• international
• specific goal to start by first of year
• thematic org

More funding for regular, periodic in-person meet-ups for women International women-only Wikimedia conference Better documentation of best practices and next steps

• Meta: learning patterns

Hire someone to work on WikiProject feminism/creative approaches to paying people to work on diversity

• chapters have money: we need to empower people to work with their chapters
• in conjunction with IEG/other grants programs
• what kind of paid work has what effects?

Editathons: start small, keep it regular. mentoring Increasing number of conferences and influencing conference culture spreads to online, sometimes

• But -- do the editors whose interactions are problematic come to events?
• Increased outreach -> invite people.
• Scholarships are challenging. We need stated prioirity of inviting new voices.
• Better document the benefit of in-person events to get more funding for them.
• Bring event organizers together to train on how to put on good events with friendly space policies, etc., then spread to local events.
• Make organizing events easy (like Wikipedia 10 events or Wiknics)

3. Who likes to be the contact person for people who want to get more involved or like to adapt the project in their home country?

Netha!

4. What future projects should be started and who likes to take part?

Sydney will commit to reach out to getting Wiki Women's User Group going. Reaching out to women journalism students to help with media in Serbia Friendly space policies for subgroups online

• Jessie will put one in place on program evaluation portal on Meta