Re: [Gendergap] How to increase the diversity of Wikimedia technical contributors and staff?

2017-08-07 Thread Peter Southwood
I agree very much with this. Cheers, P From: Gendergap [mailto:gendergap-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fluffernutter wiki Sent: Monday, 07 August 2017 3:31 PM To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects.

Re: [Gendergap] How to increase the diversity of Wikimedia technical contributors and staff?

2017-08-07 Thread JJ Marr
I think Wikipedia editors should be a higher priority than technical contributors. If one looks at most of the STEM community, it appears to be a systematic problem in underrepresentation. On the other hand, in the editing environment, there is an underrepresentation of women identifying editors

Re: [Gendergap] How to increase the diversity of Wikimedia technical contributors and staff?

2017-08-07 Thread Fluffernutter wiki
This is a topic of much interest to me. Thank you for bringing it up! First, though, I want to tease apart two of the points you make here, Pine: increasing technical contributions/participation by non-majority demographics, and increasing the number of people from non-majority demographics who