Gender gap strategy

Wikimedia's gender gap has been well-documented and increasing diversity is an area of concern for the Wikimedia movement. Our aim here is to build a collective and coherent strategy for addressing the gender gap as a movement.

This page builds on several strategic meetings:

• In July 2013, a small group of WMF staff and volunteers met in San Francisco to brainstorm and prioritize ideas for addressing the gender gap.
• In November 2013, a larger group of volunteers convened in Berlin for Diversity Conference, and generated a roundup of best practices and ideas.
• In August 2014, a Gender Gap strategy workshop was held at Wikimania. This workshop was hosted by 2 Wikipedians and 3 WMF staffers, and attended by ~40 Wikimedians. Workshop participants took the list of top ideas from both 2013 events, and prioritized them into key initiatives to focus on. This page lists the top 7 key initiatives that attendees agreed they would like to prioritize and work on.

• 
  Gender Gap Strategy Day, 2013
• 
  Wikimedia Diversity Conference, 2013
• 
  Gender Gap Strategy Workshop Leaders, 2014

Get involved!

A movement-wide gender gap strategy needs your help to improve and shape future priorities as well as execute on the initiatives that have been prioritized so far.

Ways to get involved:

• Sign up for a team and start collaborating on a project
• Sign up to lead a team and start planning and coordinating
• Add more ideas if you feel something is missing, or give feedback on existing ideas on the talk page
• Share this page with your fellow Wikimedians, friends, and colleagues!

Initiative 1: Thematic edit-a-thons

Planning page : Thematic edit-a-thons
Organize edit-a-thon series based around women-specific content and reach out to women for participation.

Projects

• Art & Feminism editathons
• Women-in-Science
• Women's History Month, India 2014

Team leads

• User:Keilana (Emily Temple-Wood)
• Netha Hussain (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
• C.Koltzenburg (talk) (Claudia)
• add your name here!

Team

• AWang (WMF)
• Shiningroad (talk)
• ACrockford
• FCT Berlin
• Grayeff, S.G.
• TransGoat
• --アンタナナ 16:37, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
• Amir (talk) 17:01, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
• add your name here!

Initiative 2: Toolkits

Planning Page: Toolkits
Better tools to talk about the gender gap.

Projects

• Admin training sessions
• Systemic bias toolkit

Team lead(s)

• Sydney Poore/FloNight (talk)!

Team

• Siko (WMF) (talk) 20:59, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
• FloNight (talk)
• Sphilbrick (talk)
• FCT Berlin
• SlimVirgin ^(talk) 19:01, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
• Maximilianklein (talk) (particularly interested in synthesizing the male allies sections of other such toolkits).
• ASengupta (WMF)
• add your name here!

Initiative 3: More friendly-space policies

Planning Page: Friendly spaces
Ensure there are friendly-space policies for all Wikimedia spaces and that those policies are enforced.

Projects

• add your project here!

Team lead(s)

• Kirill Lokshin
• add your name here!

Team

• FloNight (talk)
• Alex Wang
• Amir (talk) 17:02, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
• add your name here!

Initiative 4: Gender gap grants campaign

Planning Page: Gender gap grants campaign
Run an "Inspire Grants" campaign to proactively solicit grant requests addressing the gender gap.

Projects

• Gender gap grants campaign

Team leads

• AWang (WMF)
• SBouterse (WMF)

Team

• James Hare + Wikimedia DC small grants program
• Tony1
• C.Koltzenburg
• add your name here!

Initiative 5: Conferences and meetups

Planning Page: Conferences and meetups
More conferences and meetings focused on diversity and women-specific issues.

Projects

• The women month- WMAR (being planed with UNESCO and other women organization. The activities will take part during March)

Team lead(s)

• James Hare
• Emily Temple-Wood
• add your name here!

Team

• Kirill Lokshin
• Shiningroad
• ACrockford
• TransGoat
• Netha Hussain (talk) 18:41, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
• Sydney Poore/FloNight (talk)
• --Anna Torres (WMAR) (talk) 12:51, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
• Venuslui
• add your name here!

See also

• Charting diversity: Working together towards diversity in Wikipedia; blogpost
• Additional Initiatives: See more initiatives that are under discussion, but de-prioritized for 2014/2015 due to lack of team leads/members.
• Gender gap strategy 2013
• Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire Grants – Gender gap campaign