Certainly my own experience with edit training and edit-a-thons is that,
while people (both male and female) seem to enjoy the workshop, they don't
come back for more. I increasingly share the view that Wikipedians are born
not made. I am not sure that outreach achieves very much, given it is very
Kerry and all,
I've been thinking about much of what you wrote. Being in this list has
made me think about how to recruit and retain more female editors. I
attended Emily's training about how to conduct workshops and edit-athons in
Washington, D.C. last fall, which was a very valuable
Quoted from the publicly logged #wikimedia-office IRC channel, and emailing
with the consent of Emily:
[17:14:19] harej Finnegan: or in emily's case, there are not enough
articles on women scientists. this is an outrage to us.
[17:15:19] Finnegan i am now enjoying a mental image of her
