On 6/23/2014 11:45 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:
This comment to me comes off as exactly the opposite of the sort of
thing that I would want to see on this list. We are here to cooperate
on reducing the gender-gap and this means that we should all work
civilly together to do so.
Over the last two years I have made a number of constructive suggestions
to increase female participation, a few are below, plus some new ones
that occur as I write:
* bring back Wikipedia:Wikiquette_assistance since women may not want to
got to WP:ANI for low grade constant nonsense
* take complaints about harassment in general more seriously
* Have a "class action" Arbitration on Sexism/Double standards so that
discretionary sanctions could be imposed on obvious incidents
* (new one) quota of 1/3 women admins and 1/3 women arbitrators (and
other positions?)
* (new one) A GenderGap wikiproject on every wiki, since it can be
troublesome having to go all the way to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap to contact women about what to
do with specific issues; (wikiprojects like feminism and gender and
womens studies more article and policy related than recruitment and
problem solving related)
The archives probably have other early suggestions by women I've
forgotten. Now a days the only alternatives seem to be doing studies,
counting numbers, posting mainstream media articles about what Wikipedia
is allegedly doing and links to problematic articles.
Not enough to solve the problem.
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