I'm not a wikimedia employee, but I am an intern with wikimedia this summer. I'm a fairly active contributor on en wiki; but it is on another account which is not my "WMF" account. So I am editing, just not publicly. I wouldn't be surprised if that was also the case for many female (and male) WMF employees. -mvolz
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Keilana <keilanaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think having some dedicated time for the women of the Foundation to edit > in a social environment is one potential solution. I know I seem to be like > a broken record - women need invitation and dedicated time and social > support! - but it's so true. I think the Foundation is an environment ripe > for that kind of collaboration because they are already committed to the > movement and just need a little push to edit more. I'm not sure how we as a > community can support them besides generally being welcoming and not being > adversarial just because they're from WMF. > > -Emily > > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, this is a question I've been wondering about for awhile, and I am >> interested in hearing comments. >> >> My impression is that few of WMF's female employees are regular content >> editors or regular Commons media contributors, although they occasionally >> have office discussions about how to increase the number of female editors. >> What could be done to encourage WMF's female employees to edit or >> contribute media files on a regular basis, and would the necessary >> encouragement for these women also apply to other working women who would >> make good editors? >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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