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Welcome to the gender gap task force (GGTF), one of the task forces of WikiProject Countering systemic bias. If you'd like to help, please add your name to the list of participants.
According to New York Magazine, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture."[1] Estimates of female Wikipedians range from 8.5 to 16.1 percent.[2]
Wikipedia "shares many characteristics with the hard-driving hacker crowd," according to Joseph Reagle of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is "open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even misogynists."[3] Issues discouraging women include a perception of Wikipedia as sexist; a perception of it as sexual, particularly because of the inclusion of pornography; lack of confidence; less spare time; problems with the editing interface; the belief that editing is tedious; and fewer opportunities to develop social relationships than on other websites.[4][1][5] Despite significant evidence to the contrary, certain commentators have denied that the gender gap is a problem, citing efforts to highlight it as "feminist ideology."[6]
The GGTF was started in 2013 to address some of the problems women face on Wikipedia, whether as editors or article subjects. Issues include editor interaction, dispute resolution, how admins and the Arbitration Committee are chosen, how policies are written and enforced, which articles about women are created and deleted, and how those articles are written. In 2014 the National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 grant to two researchers to study the democratization of academic knowledge on Wikipedia and the effect on that of systemic gender bias.[7] That year the Wikimedia Foundation created the Inspire Campaign to fund projects aimed at closing the gender gap, and a new page on meta, Address the gender gap. In 2015 the Foundation recognized a new user group, WikiWomen's User Group.
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Templates
- Copy this to your user page, including the squiggly brackets: {{GGTF userbox}}. It creates:
- Invite others to join! To invite someone, add {{subst:GGTF invitation}} to their talk page. This produces following welcome message:
- Mind the Gap Award For those who've done a great job. Paste the following template, with your own message, to the recipient's talk page:
{{subst:Mind the Gap Award|1=Add your message here. ~~~~}}
To do
Measures
Affiliates of WikiProject Women |
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Architects |
Artists |
Feminism |
Health |
History |
History Month |
Jewish women |
Psychology |
Scientists |
Sport |
Technology |
Warfare & military |
Writers |
Missing articles department: Women in Red |
See also: Gender gap task force |
- Recruit women editors and administrators.
- Help retain women editors by offering to help with issues they face.
- Track progress by dynamically updating figures for the gender pronouns.
- Consider proposals that might help editors deal with GG bias.
- Promote! Promote! Promote! Use the templates above and talk up the project to other editors.
Write articles
- User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list
- User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list#Related_lists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red
Write essays
- See Wikipedia:Writing about women
- Write essays on the problems women editors face, how Wikipedia's dispute-resolution processes can be improved. Consider ideas from this "geek feminism" page on working with men.
- Write essay on Wikipedia: Functional v. intentional sexism.
- Update Wikipedia:WikiBigotry to include bigotry towards women.
- Write essay on Wikipedia:Unwanted interaction
Improve resource, policy and help pages
- Many women's/gender gap resource pages and "help" pages need improvement.
- Many policy pages need to deal better with issues of concern to women, particularly Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Harassment and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
Categorization
- Ensure that categories are used in accordance with the guideline above. (There is a main Category:Women, thousands of categories with "women" in their titles, and thousands with "female.")
Resources
Resources lists
- Media and academic articles on Wikipedia's gender gap
- Wikimedia and en.Wikipedia Gender Gap action projects
- Related resources: projects and writings
- Sortable list of resources
- Wikipedia:General background on risks for women on Wikipedia and the Internet
Links
- Gender Gap at Wikimedia
- Women on Wikipedia Month
- Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month
- Wikipedia:Teahouse, for new users
- Wikipedia Women, Facebook
Non-Wikimedia communities
- Geek Feminism Wiki, Wikia
- GeekFeminism, blog
- The Ada Initiative, non-profit working to increase participation of women in technology
data+art : Gender Bias @Wikipedia
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies
- Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Women and gender issues
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish Women
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UO Weaving Women Into Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Health
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women of psychology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers
- Sport
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject National Basketball Association/WNBA task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport
Notes
- ^ a b Kat Stoeffel, "Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap — Reluctantly", New York Magazine, 11 February 2014.
- ^ "Wikipedia Editors' Survey", Wikimedia Foundation, April 2011, p. 2.
Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw, "The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation", PLOS ONE, 26 June 2013.
- ^ Noam Cohen, "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List", The New York Times, 31 January 2011.
- ^ Sue Gardner, "Nine Reasons Women Don't Edit Wikipedia (in their own words)", suegardner.org, 19 February 2011.
- ^ "Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance", BBC News, 8 August 2014.
- ^ Stine Eckert, Linda Steiner, "(Re)triggering Backlash: Responses to News About Wikipedia’s Gender Gap," Journal of Communication Inquiry," 37(4), October 2013, pp. 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618
- ^ Julia Adams, "Wikipedia and the Democratization of Academic Knowledge", National Science Foundation, November 2014.