Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Inspiring Women and Non-Binary Creatives to Address Wikipedia’s Content Gender Gap (ID: 22764836)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
communitygem
- Organization
The Ruby
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Inspiring Women and Non-Binary Creatives to Address Wikipedia’s Content Gender Gap
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-09-30 - 2024-11-16
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
United States of America
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) This event will be dedicated to raising awareness and inspiring women and non-binary community members to contribute to Wiki Project: Women in Red.
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
We are compelled by the statistic that as of July 2024, “only 18.85% of content in all Wikimedia projects are about women” [Humaniki] and that 13.6% of contributors identify as female and 1.7% identity as other. [Wikimedia Meta-Wiki: Community Insights/2018 Report] We are aligned with Women in Red Project’s mission to address the content gender gap in Wikipedia as a means to combat systematic bias and further the cause of increasing access to women’s history and topics for all. The primary focus of this series would be three-fold: raising awareness on the content gender gap on Wikipedia and systematic bias online amongst the Bay Area creative community, educating and training creatives from across the Bay Area to edit Wikipedia, and provide the community support and infrastructure to sustain active participation as editors and advocates for scholarship and inclusion of women and non-binary stories and topics in Wikipedia; thus increasing articles about women and non-binary subjects and the representation of women and non-binary voluntary editors on Wikipedia.
Inspired by community leaders, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight and Kelly Doyle Kim, Ruby members and extended community will be able to take part in creating and editing articles on women and non-binary subjects drawn from lists generated by WikiProject: Women in Red. Participants will create our own list of articles to edit and redlinks for Ruby members to research and edit, with an emphasis on women and non-binary writers and artists of color.
The Ruby, as an arts and letters-centric space, is a great community to mobilize around Women in Red and other gender gap initiatives. The Ruby’s mission is to uplift and nurture previously underrepresented voices in the arts while serving as a sanctuary for our majority QT and/or BIPOC women and non-binary community of creatives. We are an interdisciplinary group of writers, editors, academics, journalists, audio producers, visual artists, filmmakers, policy makers, teachers, social scientists, and more. We anticipate that making this a large, mission-driven community-based activity will serve as a welcoming space for those uninitiated but curious about Wikipedia to take part and will be an ideal setting for sustained participation within a community of passionate and civic-minded members.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
We will host and organize a two-day series, 4 hours each day, that includes building awareness to the cause of closing the content gender gap at Wikipedia and provide training to support the participation of women and non-binary creatives, along with public community members, in creating and updating articles that center women and non-binary artists and writers as a new community cohort of editors based at The Ruby and the Bay Area.
Planning activities (9/30 - 10/15) Include:
- Organizing travel and stay for visiting speakers and trainers
- Finalizing Training curriculum with trainers and team
- Promoting the series on social media, The Ruby's weekly newsletter, The Ruby's website, and through outreach to mission-aligned organizations, including the Asian American Women Artists Association, Acción Latina, Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network, Kearny Street Workshop, NDN Girls Book Club, American Indian Cultural Center, SOMArts, Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative, and The Marigold Project.
- Reserving/Coordinating catering and refreshments for participants
- Establishing Event RSVP page
- Finalizing survey instruments for reporting in alignment with trainers and co-organizers
Implementation (10/15 - 11/10): 2-Day Series Proposed Schedule/Agenda
Day One: Why It’s Important: Addressing the Gender Gap
- Introductions between members, featured speakers, and trainers
- Introduction to Wikipedia and to the WikiProject: Women in Red featuring Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Introduction to Kelly Doyle Kim’s gender gap work and the case for increasing access for all to women and non-binary history via Wikipedia
- Break & Catered lunch for participants
- First portion of training:
- Introduction to Wikipedia: Rules, Community Guidelines, Registration
- Setting up a account and user page
- How to add a citation and use the sandbox
Day 2: Women and Non-Binary Edit-a-thon!
- Re-introductions and welcome
- Kelly Doyle Kim will facilitate training by leading us in a review of the list from WikiProject: Women in Red, making our own community list of women and non-binary artists and writers of color we’d like to create articles for
- Drafting articles
- Break & Catered lunch for participants
- Polish and move of each new editor's first article live
- We’ll have participants join Women in Red!
Assessing Feedback and Sharing Findings (11/10 - 11/16)
- Metrics collected on participant numbers and articles created or updated will be collected and documented, these metrics will be shared in reporting to Wikimedia, participants, and fellow organizers
- Collected surveys will be analyzed and assessed in congruence with learning questions
- All findings will be included in our report to the Wikimedia Foundation
Activities chosen are designed to raise awareness to the issue of content gender gap and systematic bias at Wikipedia and empower participants with the skills and knowledge to become new editors. We believe that bringing inspiring leaders and innovators such as Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight and Kelly Doyle Kim are uniquely inspiring to members of a women and non-binary creative community. Offering training in our dedicated community space will also provide a sense of safety and support for exploration and sustained participation as editors.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
- Kelly Doyle Kim ([[user:KellyDoyle)) will be facilitating sessions pertaining to the gender gap on Wikipedia. Most recently, she was the Open Knowledge Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, where she stewarded the addition of over 1.2 million new words about American women to Wikipedia through her public programs and training sessions. Kelly has worked in the open access and cultural heritage space for over a decade, exclusively focusing on the gender gap on open sites like Wikipedia. [PAID FOR TRAINING]
- Jake Orlowitz (User:ocaasi)) will be designing sessions on editing skills, citations, and verifiability. He founded The Wikipedia Library, providing free access to 100,000 journals. Jake initiated the #1Lib1Ref and #1Bib1Ref campaigns, helping others add thousands of references to Wikipedia annually. He built The Wikipedia Adventure gamified learning tutorial and the Citation Watchlist to enhance Wikipedia’s reliability. Jake has presented at numerous conferences and authored several influential papers on Wikipedia and open knowledge. Learn more about Jake's work: JakeOrlowitz.com, WikiBlueprint.com. [PAID FOR TRAINING]
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:rosiestep) is a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston), where her work focuses on pre-20th-century English language women writers and their works. She has created more than 5,000 new Wikipedia articles, including more than 2,200 women’s biographies. Rosie is the co-founder of an international Wikipedia community, Women in Red, that focuses on improving the representation gender gap across 33 language Wikipedias. In 2016, she was honored as Wikipedian of the Year, and Women in Red was shortlisted for the ITU/UN Women GEMTECH award. In 2018, Rosie was knighted in part because of her Wikipedia achievements and activism. She is a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees. [UNPAID SPEAKER]
- Peggy Lee (User:communitygem). Peggy Lee will be serving as the primary operations and administrative support for the series. Peggy Lee is the Director and a founding member of The Ruby, an arts & letters–focused community and gathering space in San Francisco. The Ruby is a collective of Bay Area women and nonbinary creatives that proudly collaborates with community organizations and hosts cultural programming for creatives and the creative curious alongside community organizations and partners. Partners include the San Francisco Public LIbrary, Indigenous Women Rising, NDN Girls Book Club, Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network, The Marigold Project, Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative, and the Asian American Women Artists Association. Prior to leading the Ruby, she’s worked both locally and globally on public health education programs addressing HIV/AIDS, family planning, mental health, child nutrition, women's health, and substance abuse throughout Asia, Africa, and the US. She also created Made By Girls, a national education program to build stem confidence in girls ages 8-17 at 18 locations throughout the US and Canada. [PAID FOR ADMIN]
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
The main target populations for this project include:
- Ruby members (180+ women and non-binary creatives from throughout the Bay Area)
- Local San Francisco Wikipedia gender gap editors and Wikicurious.
- Ruby extended community of women and non-binary member alums, women and non-binary members of the public who follow The Ruby on our social media (6,329 followers) and have signed up on our website with interest in our work (500+). Mission-aligned organization members will be invited including the Asian American Women Artists Association, SOMArts, The Marigold Project, Acción Latina, and Kearny Street Workshop.
As the Ruby serves as the central host of activities, we will share about the upcoming event in our social media accounts, in our weekly newsletter, and on our website. We will also promote the activity amongst mission-aligned organizations in San Francisco. RSVPs will be collected using TheThirdPlace RSVP system. Participants will be contacted prior to the event with reminders and agenda.
All participants will be asked to fill a short questionnaire after the conclusion of each session to gather feedback on the event and on their future plans to participate in editing activities on Wikipedia. The Ruby will also document the number of participants, edits completed, articles created, and other feedback and insights generated. Findings will be shared in a report to Wikimedia as well as to the participants.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Jennifer 8. Lee (user:Jenny8lee) has long known Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight and been a fan of the Women in Red project, as well as Art+Feminism. On top of that, she has felt there hasn’t been enough IRL Wikipedia activities in the Bay Area. When she saw the Ruby space and saw the population it served, she thought they would be great to mobilize for Women in Red.
She connected Peggy Lee (User:communitygem), who heads the Ruby, and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (User:rosiestep), Women in Red cofounder, to talk about the possibility. In addition, she reached out to Jake Orlowitz (User:ocaasi)), who lives in Santa Cruz, to see if he would be up for training and he pulled in Kelly Doyle Kim to lead an in-person gender event.
We believe our efforts are aligned with other edit-a-thons in the area and complement the many global events held in support of the Women in Red Project. In addition, having such incredible role models and inspiring trainers in Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Kelly Doyle Kim, and Jake Orlowitz make this an especially meaningful opportunity for new editors to connect with members of the Wikimedia community who have made a significant impact.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We come into this series with a theory of change in that our activities can contribute to addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia by bringing awareness to the issue and how it contributes to systematic bias on Wikipedia and the larger web, inspiring new editors among women and non-binary members of the public and amongst the Ruby member community, empowering through thoughtful training and education so that new to Wikipedia and new to editing members of the public have the skills and tools they need to be active contributors, and using the power of built-in trust and mutual accountability of The Ruby to help sustain efforts and continue the work beyond our event.
We will be learning a great deal from this experience about how this model can reach and sustain new women and non-binary editors towards the cause of contributing to public knowledge via Wikipedia. We will be gathering feedback from participants and co-organizers through both questionnaire and in person to understand 1) What drew people who have not edited Wikipedia in the past to this event?; 2) For those who edit or create their first articles, how prepared did they feel to continue with Wikipedia?; 3) How likely do they feel they will continue onwards?; 4) What are the women and non-binary stories they are drawn to (i.e. Bay Area women and non-binary artists, community organizers, women and non-binary pioneers in STEM, etc)?; 5) Were there gaps in knowledge or capacity that we were unable to support? What and why?, 6) How can we continue to offer community support within our space? Quarterly meet-ups? Advanced Training/Special Topics? Profiling articles and discoveries from our participants in our Discord or newsletter?
We will be monitoring outcomes in terms of number of participants and number of articles created/updated in how well they match with our initial projection. If above or below or projected numbers, we’ll also be examining our methods of recruitment, the length and format of the training, the timing of the event, and the satisfaction of the participants.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | New participants that will join from amongst Ruby Members, participants from partnering organizations, and the extended creative community of the Bay Area. |
| Number of editors | 30 | Newly registered users who will join us through the course of the event series. |
| Number of organizers | 4 | Peggy Lee
Keely So Jake Orlowitz Kelly Doyle Kim |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We will focus our efforts on creating and improving Wiki Project: Women in Red.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Training and Event Satisfaction | Survey, Likert Scale 1 - 5, 1 indicating very unsatisfied, 5 indicating very satisfied | 4 |
| Intention to continue to editing and contributing the the Women in Red Wiki Project | Survey, check box, yes/no, I intend to continue to contribute to the Wiki Project: Women in Red, We will target >70% yes | 70 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
We will be documenting progress in edits and articles at the conclusion of both days and will be administering surveys at the conclusion of each day. In addition to metrics above, we will collect qualitative feedback and insights from both participants and trainers that address the learning questions we have listed above.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
5000 USD
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
5000 USD
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Yes
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