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* Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring.[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-February/000047.html]
* Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring.[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2011-February/000047.html]

==Proposals not yet posted to the Gendergap list==

* User:Pharos of the New York City Chapter is trying to recruit a Girl Scout to a Wikipedian in Residence position. [IRC general meeting Feb. 5 2011, 10:20 Pacific time]


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Revision as of 18:26, 5 February 2011

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.[3]
  • Bring all articles on birth control to featured status in all language wikipedias.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • Support a multilateral tax haven treaty in the US and any other countries that might still be opposing one.[6]
  • Less javascript for mobile devices.[7]
  • Remove WP:NOTHOWTO because it is used to argue against topic notability but is not well respected.[13]

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.[14]

Proposals not yet posted to the Gendergap list

  • User:Pharos of the New York City Chapter is trying to recruit a Girl Scout to a Wikipedian in Residence position. [IRC general meeting Feb. 5 2011, 10:20 Pacific time]