Proposals for more female editors
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- Please link to the rationale(s) for and/or against at the end of each proposal.
Posted to the Gendergap list without objections raised there
Knowledge generation
- Study other online communities that have sucessfully addressed gender imbalances.[1]
Helping women with editing
- Ask chapters to compete to nurture the greatest number of female administrators.[2]
- 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.) -- Please see w:Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia, w:Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user, and w:Wikipedia:Contribution Team; thanks User:Ironholds for recommending those.
Making wikis more welcoming to women
- Improve articles on interesting women and womens' issues such as simple:birth control and birth control in developing world language wikipedias.[3][4]
Demote Wikipe-tan from English Wikipedia mascot to WikiProject Anime mascot,replacing her with Puzzly.[5] (partly done)
Supporting women via their economic disadvantages
- Less javascript for mobile devices.[6] (This is potentially in tension with WYSIWYG editing on high-end devices)
- Support a multilateral tax haven treaty in the US and any other countries that might still be opposing one.[7] (there is a detailed discussion of this proposal on the talk page)
Supporting women via their greater de facto child rearing responsibilities
Posted to Gendergap list where objections have been raised
- Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring.[11] -- why is there opposition to reviving these groups?
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 and involve the Girl Scouts more directly in other ways. IRC general meeting Feb. 5 2011, 10:20 Pacific time
- Bring more articles about women and womens' issues to featured status in all language wikipedias. (Modified from one of several deleted proposals at this diff.) Carolmooredc 18:06, 8 February 2011 (UTC)