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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
- 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] (objections have been raised to this proposal on the talk page)
- Less javascript for mobile devices.[7]
- Remove WP:NOTHOWTO because it is used to argue against topic notability but is not well respected.[13]
Posted to Gendergap list where objections have been raised
- Revive Esperanza and the Association of Editors' Advocates with a focus on editor mentoring.[14]
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]