that is a very interesting report. Thanks Laura for show it to us. (Tanvir fwed it to WMBD mailing list, so i suppose he also thinks is interesting :D) _____ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt> (351) 963 953 042
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* On 25 December 2011 19:47, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com> wrote: > In preparation for WikiWomenCamp and the sister conference open to people > of all genders for discussing the gender gap (we'll get a name chosen and > do a formal announcement soon!) , we're writing and asking for your > assistance in writing about the involvement of and content related to women > on Wikimedia projects from around the world. Today, we're looking at > Bangladesh. If you can help improve this, please do. Many thanks to > Tanvir, WM-BN's secretary, for providing insight into what is going on. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Bangladesh > > [image: Flag of Bangladesh.svg] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh> > Bangladesh > [image: people standing in a group wearing Wikipedia > shirts]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kite_flying2011_065.JPG> > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kite_flying2011_065.JPG> > A Wikipedia 10th Birthday celebration in Bangladesh > > Bengali Wikimedia projects have very few female contributors. Those that > they do have do not contribute on a consistent, regular basis; they edit > sporadically. In Bangladesh, women often attend events by the Chapter and > others in the country. There are female participants who attend every > meet-up. Most of the time, these are new faces and there is a problem in > getting the same women to consistently show up to events in order to build > up a regular base of active female participants. Currently Wikimedia > Bangladesh <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh> has no > female members in the board. The board is planning to find a woman from the > country to be a a Bengali participant in at WikiWomenCamp in Argentina. > > In December 2011, there were 1,700 women of all ages from Bangladesh who > were interested in Wikipedia on > Facebook.[1]<https://www.facebook.com/ads/create/> 0.06% > of all Wikipedia traffic comes from > Bangladesh.[2]<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm> > Most > editors in Bangladesh edit the Bengali Wikipedia but 91.1% view English > Wikipedia. There are many articles about Bengali actresses on the Bengali > Wikipedia. These articles were mostly created by male contributors. There > is an effort by a Bengali editor to take the Bengali language article about > Angelina > Jolie<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF> > to > Featured. As of December 2011, there are zero featured articles about women > on Bengali Wikipedia. There are two articles about female sport people: an > athlete and a chess player. There are 10 articles about female film > actresses from > Bangladesh<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%80:%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80>, > 10 articles about female television actresses from Bangladesh, 3 articles > about female Bangladeshi stage actresses and 13 articles about Bangladeshi > singers. On Bengali Wikipedia, there are 4 articles about Bangladeshi > social > workers<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%80:%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80>, > 3 of whom women. The amount of women specific content in Bengali, and > Bangaldeshi women content, is limited. The Bengali word for User is gender > neutral; the name space does not indicate the gender of the user on > Wikimedia projects. > > On English Wikipedia, there are 11 > articles<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangladeshi_women_in_politics> > women > in politics, 4 > articles<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangladeshi_feminists> about > Bangladeshi feminists. There are 0 articles about women's basketball > teams<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Category:Women%27s_basketball_teams> > in > this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's > basketball > teams<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Club_de_basket-ball_f%C3%A9minin> > in > this country on French Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's > basketball > teams<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B1%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0> > in > this country on Japanese Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's > basketball teams in this country (he:קטגוריה:קבוצות כדורסל > נשים<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9B%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D>) > on Hebrew Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's association > football clubs in this country on Farsi Wikipedia (fa:رده:باشگاههای > فوتبال زنان بر پایه > کشور<http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87:%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%87_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1>). > There are 0 articles about women's association football > clubs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women%27s_association_football_clubs_by_country> > in > this country on English Wikipedia. There are 0 articles about women's > association football > clubs<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%BF%D0%BE_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC> > in > this country on Russian Wikipedia. Bangladeshi women do not appear to be > given much coverage on non-Bengali Wikipedia. This is for several reasons, > including a lack of participation of women in certain categories, language > issues that make it difficult to report on Bangladeshi women, and a general > lack of interest in existing contributors in covering their issues. > [image: group cutting a > cake]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10_years_of_Wikipedia_celebration_Chittagong_009.jpg> > > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10_years_of_Wikipedia_celebration_Chittagong_009.jpg> > 10th Birthday celebrations in Chittagong > > In December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikinews was ranked the 17,538th > most popular site in the > country.[3]<http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org> > On Portuguese Wikinews<http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:P%C3%A1gina_principal>, > there are no women active from this country. This may be a result of > several factors, including the language and because Portuguese Wikinews > only has an active editing community of five people, one of whom is a > woman. A December 2011 search on English Wikinews for Women Bangladesh > found 5 articles that mentioned both > words.[4]<http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=women+Bangladesh> > A > December 2011 search on Spanish Wikinews for Bangladesh mujeres found 1 > article that mentioned both > words.[5]<http://es.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3ABuscar&search=Bangladesh+mujeres&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced> > A > December 2011 search on Portuguese Wikinews for mulheres Bangladesh found 1 > articles that mentioned both > words.[6]<http://pt.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Especial%3APesquisar&search=mulheres+Bangladesh&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&redirs=1&profile=advanced> > > Bangladeshi women are absent on other projects connected to the Wikimedia > Foundation. There is one woman who has contributed to the language > incubator <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> who uses > Bengali<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language>. > She made one edit and is the only Bengali speaker to make an edit on > incubator. There are no bureaucrats, male or female, from Bangladesh on > MediaWiki.Org.[7]<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat> > In > December 2011, according to Alexa, Wikibooks was ranked the 1,653th most > popular site in the country.[8]<http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikibooks.org> > Some > of the visitors are likely to be women. Bangladeshi women also do not > appear to factor into the WMF's wider strategy to appeal to the region: > During the December 2011 fundraising appeal, no Bangladeshis, men or women, > were > featured<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_December_22.2C_2011> > are > part of the appeal. During the 2011 Summer of > Research<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011>, > the WMF hired eight research fellows. Of these, only one was female, and > she was from the United States. There were four males from American > universities, The other researchers included men from a Japanese > university, a Swiss university and a Canadian university. There were no > research fellows, male or female, from this country. > > > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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