Carol, my instinct is that this outreach program is within scope for the outreach wiki. Pine On Aug 30, 2014 7:26 PM, "Carol Moore dc" <carolmoor...@verizon.net> wrote:
> People in the know can answer when it's covenient next week, but since > it's on my mind, posting now. > > As we write on Gender Gap Task Force main page: "In 2014 Wikipedia > co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] said the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] was "doubling > down" its efforts to reach that goal and would be doing more outreach and > software changes. Reference: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28701772 > Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance, [[BBC]] interview > August 8, 2014. > > > So info on status of interns, paid staffers working on this, volunteer > efforts, etc. and their relation to the Wikimedia Gender Gap Task force > would be helpful. I know Wikimedia Gender Gap project which is not very > active, though sub-projects like > WikiWomen's Collaborative are doing some things. > > Reminder of temporary address of en.Wikipedia Gender Gap Task force's big > list of resources which is relevant to the above and does in fact contain > links where we can infer answers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carolmooredc/My_Sandbox_1 is > > One reason I ask is I just put up this message at Wikimedia Gender Gap > project but then started wondering about the issues above. > > *Should this project be listed on Outreach.wikimedia?? at > **https://meta.wikimedia.org > <https://meta.wikimedia.org>**/* > *Talk:Gender_gap#Should_this_project_be_listed_on_Outreach.wikimedia.3F.3F* > > *https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> links to GLAM (Galleries, > Libraries, Archives & Museums) and Wikimedia Education Portal (re: > different countries) (as well as Best Practices and Success stories). > Considering women are half the human race, it seems sensible to include > this project there. It probably would bring more willing volunteers to > outreach in general as well. I don't see any discussion of this on this > talk page and only a link to Outreach Village Pump as a "good place to > discuss outreach to women." * > > So clarifications and updates would be great and I'm sure lots of us are > interested. > > Thanks!! > > CM > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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