Sorry to interrupted, just a short question. I'm looking for statistics of how many project ideas/requests were submitted in the past. How many volunteers and WMF-employees were and are involved in evaluating all these submissions and so on.
Can anybody provide me with a link or any other kind of reliable informations on that? best regards Jens Best 2015-01-08 15:13 GMT+01:00 Leigh Thelmadatter <osama...@hotmail.com>: > I dont think the issue is the idea of encouraging projects that increase > the participation of women, but rather the message that everything else is > getting shoved aside. > > I dont see this as sexism and playing that card is counter-productive. > > What I suggest is that instead of saying that for three months everyone > else is sidelined, focus on inclusion. If there arent enough or good > enough projects for addressing the number of women participating in > Wikipedia, perhaps we should look into why. Perhaps also look into the > Foundation directly reaching out to women's groups for collaborative > purposes. > > But the OP does have a point. By telling certain groups "we are not > interested in you right now" you are playing an "us-against-them" game and > quite probably causing more harm than good. > > > Leigh > > > > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:03:40 -0500 > > From: nawr...@gmail.com > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why WMF should reconsider the 3-month gender > gap project-related decision > > > > You certainly put a lot of time and effort into being wrong. Any first > year > > undergraduate writing course will tell you that to make an argument you > > need to address the counter-arguments, which you have failed even to > > mention. Diversity of contributors isn't a social justice goal, or even a > > cultural engineering goal. It is aimed squarely at increasing the > diversity > > and caliber of content. Not only does the small proportion of women mean > > that millions of them with huge amounts of expertise to contribute are > > unheard, it also means that their perspective and approach are > > underrepresented or missing entirely. > > > > And yes, the same is true for others - not only African-Americans, but > > Africans. Not only people of "Indo-Asian" descent, but the people of the > > Indian subcontinent itself. This is not an American movement, yet the > > "global south" is deeply under-represented, and the WMF has been working > > for years to address this issue. This is, again, because diversity of > > contributors matters for the breadth and depth of coverage in our > projects. > > The goal of the Wikimedia movement is the sum of all human knowledge, not > > the sum of knowledge held by white men between 15 and 35 living in Europe > > and North America. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
