Proposals for more female editors

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]

• Simple language wikipedias in languages other than English.[8]

• Low stakes instructional assessment content in Moodle's GIFT.[9]

• Audio upload with rtmplite and Gnash.[10]

• Most popular related articles.[11][12]

• 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]