Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Hi Ellie & all, Maybe my previous mail was to generalising, what I tried to say is that a lot of people feel it the way I described, but certainly not everyone. So, it is perfectly fine if you do not need it, but at the same time this prevents most contributors learning to edit Wikipedia to stay a

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Romaine Wiki says about women, participating as editors on Wikipedia: >They expect a social environment, with easy interaction, where they are stimulated and can form groups to be able not to feel alone on the wiki and to work together, >where they can get constructive feedback, where they can fol

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

What it would take to close the gender gap? That WMF would realize itself that Wikipedia misses social software to give female contributors a comfortable feeling because of the social environment. Giving many workshops for new female contributors, we notice that they experience Wikipedia as a dif

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Hi, Thank you all for your feedback. I've incorporated a number of them and updated the report. It's now publicly available to share with folks who are interested. @Ellie, yes, the 75% retirement part was a typo on my part. Thanks for pointing it out! @Samuel and the group of people talking abou

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Thank you so much, Jason Radford, for sharing your analysis! Lennart Guldbrandsson said: I know I was surprised to read that we would be better off trying to > recruit new editors than to focus on retention (very simplified). ​ I noticed that too and found it very surprising. Jason, I read that

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

>​I believe good design is a key issue for editor attraction and retention, so >that we can produce >professional-looking articles we can be proud of and want >to write. I would also love to see the >Foundation redesign the front page. Given how many of the candidates for the board in the electio

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

ot;Tänk dig en värld där varje människa på den här planeten får fri tillgång till världens samlade kunskap. Det är vårt mål." Jimmy Wales Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:51:31 -0400 From: pharosofalexand...@gmail.com To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Clo

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

I agree that we could build on the sandbox model; add an extra filter to RC, design a different visual background for those pages, and otherwise keep this creative experimentation "within" existing wikis. But we can also test it out on on a different experimental site, if we don't have that invest

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

I like the idea of experimenting with new knowledgespaces, with new workflows to support them. With enough investment in design, I think this could be done on a large scale right in the project namespace of English Wikipedia. Thanks, Pharos On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Sarah (SV) wrote: >

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

"Seeing like a state" refers to the idea that scientifically created govt programs can fix things. However, most a created by and for special interest and thus their inability to foresee the inevitable negative consequences or adjust quickly to them. However, nonprofit and profit businesses us

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Thanks Jason. I enjoyed reading this, though the conclusions remind me of > _Seeing Like a State_. Not all edits, editors, and subcommunities are > equal. Trying to shift about contributors en masse in a way that is > convenient for large

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Thanks Jason. I enjoyed reading this, though the conclusions remind me of _Seeing Like a State_. Not all edits, editors, and subcommunities are equal. Trying to shift about contributors en masse in a way that is convenient for large organizations (or for those of us who like crunching large dat

Re: [Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Super interesting, thanks for sharing Jason. "Can Wikipedia increase the number of new female editors four-fold and increase new editor retention four-fold every month for three years?" On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > Interesting! > > _

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[Gendergap] What would it take to Close the Gender Gap?

Hi, Since participating in the Inspire campaign, I got interested in the question of exactly how many women would be needed on Wikipedia to close the gender gap. I ran some simulations and came up with some fairly radical numbers. For example, according to my calculations, there are so few curre