Hi,
I usually push diversity in any situation but only after I got a core quality
group of volunteer. the first degree of diversity is the diversity based on
wiki activity, IMHO.. I care about the rest and I try to be honest if I go in
that direction and why I do that. If anyone is offended for something, that
happens even if you do your best, in my experience being clear helps on the
long term.
This a real documented example, if you want to read:
http://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/people/ . For WSC2017 it was mostly my
job to find these profiles, 90% of them. I did my best to find motivated jury
members and, as a first step, I searched for expert wikimedians based on their
CV on the profiles and their activities. My goal was to be balanced per topic,
than per geographical area (language mostly, some description in English are
poor), than maybe per gender, in that order. The evaluation of scientific
images require expertise, that's the core business. I shared my experience
here:
http://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/2017/11/16/how-was-the-jury-for-wiki-science-competition-2017-formed/
In any case, I couldn't know who these people really were sometimes, I didn't
care at the first step. You know where they work, but they could be foreigners.
You know their enwikipedia activity (I need people with some decent English
fluency, so I started there and in any case I found what I needed) but
sometimes that does not reveal a lot, and English descriptions are
gender-neutral. So even if it wasn't planned I got some unbalance, and I only
discovered during the set up of the page that a certain nickname was a blond
guy and not a Arab or Chinese girl. I did my best to "fix it" at that point but
mostly because when you miss some positions and you look for additional 3-4
names it's no big difference to look here or there. But still, the first search
was based on their expertise. And they all kew that.
I think it was quite balanced in the end, taking care of the issue but not
ranking it more critical than the scientific quality of the profiles. Plus. I
told some of the female jurors that they could be "promoted" to the main jury
for next edition but that's because they deserve it.
So, in the end I look also for "girls" and "exotic profiles", I admit that,
but this was not my main goal, and it was never more important that the
quality. So at least these people knew that they were part of a team, that they
were there to share their expertise, not being displayed as a "token".
I think it's more easy and relaxed if you always stick to the content and the
quality as a first step, IMHO. if you want the movement to grow roots you need
real people, motivated people, and real sharing. I really hope they will set up
real national challenges next time, thanks to the expertise we shared.
Alessandro
Il Lunedì 7 Maggio 2018 14:33, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha
scritto:
On 7 May 2018 at 05:10, Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently received an e-mail
> from a user in the Wikimedia movement who has (temporarily?) stopped
> contributing as she is not happy with a specific aspect of the atmosphere
> in Wikimedia.
> She was invited to participate in a Wikimedia activity, because:
> 1. she is a woman
> 2. she is from a minority
> 3. she is from an area in the world with much less editors (compared to
> Europe/US)
>
> and perhaps also because her colour of her skin is a bit different then
> mine (Caucasian).
I'm sorry to hear that a contributor feels unable to continue because of this.
In order to examine what improvements we can make, can you tell us -
without breeching confidentiality - how this approach was made, and
what exactly was said?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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