Proposals for more female editors

Proposals posted to the Gendergap mailing list without objections raised

• Study other online communities that have sucessfully addressed gender imbalances[1]

• Ask chapters to compete to nurture the greatest number of female administrators.[2]

• Improve articles on interesting women and womens' issues.[http:// lists.wikimedia.org/ pipermail/gendergap/ 2011-February/ 000117.html]

• Bring all articles on birth control to featured status in all language wikipedias.[3]

• Provide easily accessible contact information for people who are willing and able to mentor new contributors. (And related proposals which the English Wikipedia is upholding to some extent.)

• Demote Wikipe-tan from English Wikipedia mascot to WikiProject Anime mascot, replacing her with Puzzly.[4]

• Support a multilateral tax haven treaty in the US and any other countries that might still be opposing one.[5]

• Less javascript for mobile devices.[6]

• Simple language wikipedias in languages other than English.[7]

• Low stakes instructional assessment content in Moodle's GIFT.[8]

• Audio upload with rtmplite and Gnash.[9]

• Most popular related articles.[10][11]

• Remove WP:NOTHOWTO because it is used to argue against topic notability but is not well respected.[12]

Proposals posted to Gendergap mailing list to which objections have been raised

• Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring.[13]