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Please link to the rationale(s) for and/or against at the end of each proposal to help reduce the Gender gap

Knowledge generation

  • Study other online communities that have successfully addressed gender imbalances.[1]
  • Gathering empirical data to further guide our understanding of the Wikipedia gender gap, and to monitor any improvements in this gap, as a result of different campaigns.

Recruiting women directly

  • Ask chapters to compete to nurture the greatest number of female administrators.[2]
  • Use academic e-lists (H-WOMEN, GoddessScholars, H-FOLK, etc) to get experts to contribute.
    • Is the Ambassidors program already doing this? Can we send a copy to schoolteachers and librarians with a link to j.mp/wikidesk ?
  • Female celebrities such as Oprah could ask their audiences to try editing. This was suggested by Peter Sagal during the February 5, 2011 Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me National Public Radio quiz show (end of panel round two.)

Making wikis more welcoming to women

  • Improve articles on interesting women, women's history, feminist and womens' issues such as simple:birth control and birth control in developing world language wikipedias.[3][4]
  • Improve general articles to show women's contributions in fields typically construed as masculine (e.g. economics).
  • Improve gender differences in languages which are reflected in the Wikipedia interface for that language and would make women feel more welcome if they were improved.
  • Remove WP:NOTHOWTO because it is used to argue against topic notability but is not well respected.[5] (This would also remove a pointless exclusion which overlaps with subjects of traditional interest to women -- e.g. recipes -- and information which is known to be used asymmetrically to disadvantage women economically -- e.g., brake repair.)
  • Demote Wikipe-tan from English Wikipedia mascot to WikiProject Anime mascot, replacing her with Puzzly.[6] (partly done)
  • Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring. (This was opposed -- why is there opposition to reviving these groups?)
  • Improve ease of use of the Wikipedia interface
  • Correcting existing entries that are offensive to most persons, not just women, and review/edit information, pictures, or drawings that exploit women, regardless of the the gender of who posted them

Women on Wikipedia Week

Please see Women on Wikipedia Week. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP:NOSÉQUÉ

All the WP:NOSÉQUÉ prevent women to edit, vbecause they are not used to using shortcuts in internet, like if wikipedia was a forum.

WP:NOSEQUÉ es el mayor insulto que se puede decir en una discusión a otro usuario sin romper la Wikipetiqueta (versión maligna del Inciamor). Un administrador (también llamado comúnmente bibliotecario) de Wikipedia no podrá bloquearte ni llamarte la atención por usarlo. Pero este recurso es un arma de doble filo y estos administradores, u otros usuarios con más de 100 ediciones en artículos, no dudarán es contestar con un número potencialmente superior.

También forma parte de dicha Wikipetiqueta la premisa de todo parágrafo escrito en una discusión debe contener al menos una de estas referencias para que el azul del enlace resalte y no sea muy monótono leerlo.

Translation: WP:I don't know what is the greatest insult, what can you say in a discussion with another user, without breaking the Wikipedia Etiquette (malignant version of encyclopedia:without love) An administrator (also commonly called a librarian)of Wikipedia can not block you or call to your attention for using it. But this recourse is a double-edged sword, and these administrators, or other users with over 100 edits in articles, would no doubt answer with a potentially superior number (attitude).

It also forms a part of the so called Wikipedia Etiquette the premise that all paragraphs written in a discussion, must contain at least one of these references to the blue highlighted link and must not be too monotonous to read.

Source: http://inciclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/WP:NOS%C3%89QU%C3%89

Thanks for the translation! Does it also mean "not dry"? That's what Google Translate told me, away from my bookshelf.
It could mean "I didn't dry (it)", but it wouldn't be spelled correctly (as far as I'm aware, you can't have two é's in the same word.) Soap

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Supporting women via their economic disadvantages

  • Less javascript for mobile devices.[7] (This is potentially in tension with WYSIWYG editing on high-end devices; which would also support beginning editors. There is no reason we can't disable the javascript toolbar on low-end devices and enable WYSISYG on high-end systems, as far as I can tell.)
  • Support a multilateral tax haven treaty in the US and any other countries that might still be opposing one.[8] (there is a detailed discussion of this proposal on the talk page with multiple objections -- note that this might prevent Wikimedia UK from attaining charitable status unless the advocacy could be off-loaded to chapters.)

Supporting women via their greater de facto child care responsibilities

  • After November, 2011, the Aurix "Speech Training Aid" patent will have expired, but reading tutor only systems are already unencumbered.
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