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Welcome to the gender gap task force (GGTF), one of the task forces of WikiProject Countering systemic bias. The GGTF was started in 2013 to address some of the problems women face on Wikipedia, whether as editors or article subjects. If you'd like to help, please add your name to the list of participants.

According to New York Magazine in 2014, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture."^[1] Wikipedia "shares many characteristics with the hard-driving hacker crowd", according to Joseph Reagle of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is "open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even misogynists".^[2] Estimates of Wikipedians who are female have ranged from 8.5 in 2011 to 16.1 percent in 2013.^[3]^[4]

Issues that discourage women from editing include a perception of Wikipedia as sexist; a lack of confidence and spare time; problems with the editing interface; the belief that editing is tedious; unease because of the inclusion of pornography; and fewer opportunities to develop social relationships than on other websites.^[1]^[5]^[6] Despite significant evidence to the contrary, certain commentators have denied that the gender gap is a problem, citing efforts to highlight it as "feminist ideology."^[7]

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In memoriam

The following Wikipedians are now deceased. Their user names are preserved here in their memory.

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Copy this to your user page, including the squiggly brackets: {{GGTF userbox}}. It creates:

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Invite others to join! To invite someone, add {{subst:GGTF invitation}} to their talk page. This produces following welcome message:

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To do

Measures

Recruit women.
Help to retain them by offering assistance.
Consider proposals that might help editors deal with gender-gap bias.
Promote! Promote! Promote! Use the templates above and talk up the project to other editors.

Write articles

User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red
Add images to biographies of women; see biographies with no image despite one being available on Commons.

Write essays

See Wikipedia:Writing about women.
Write essays on the problems women editors face, how Wikipedia's dispute-resolution processes can be improved. Consider ideas from this "geek feminism" page on working with men.
Write essay on Wikipedia:Functional versus intentional sexism.
Write essay on Wikipedia:Unwanted interaction.

Improve policy and help pages

Many policy pages need to deal better with issues of concern to women, particularly Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Harassment and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

Categorization

Ensure that categories are used in accordance with the guideline above. (There is a main Category:Women, and thousands of categories with "women" or "female" in their titles.)

Resources

Resources lists

Media and academic articles on Wikipedia's gender gap
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Wikipedia:General background on risks for women on Wikipedia and the Internet

Links

Gender Gap at Wikimedia
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Wikipedia Women, Facebook
WikiDonne UG & WikiDonne project in Italian WIkipedia

Non-Wikimedia communities

Geek Feminism Wiki, Wikia
GeekFeminism, blog
The Ada Initiative, non-profit working to increase participation of women in technology

data+art : Gender Bias @Wikipedia

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Notes

^ ^a ^b Stoeffel, Kat (11 February 2014). "Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap — Reluctantly". New York Magazine.
^ Cohen, Noam (31 January 2011). "Define gender gap? Look up Wikipedia's contributor list". The New York Times.
^ Wikimedia Foundation (April 2011). Wikipedia Editors' Survey (pdf). Wikimedia Foundation.
^ Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron (June 2013). "The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation". PLOS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782.
^ Gardner, Sue (19 February 2011). "Nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words)". suegardner.org.
^ Staff writer (8 August 2014). "Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance". BBC News. BBC.
^ Eckert, Stine; Steiner, Linda (October 2013). "(Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia's gender gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (4): 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618.

Awards

prevention of violence
Thank you for articles on thinking women like Mavis Maclean and men like Ian Bruce, for adding references and infoboxes, for EGM: prevention of violence against women and girls, for saying "give peace a chance", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:22, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Other stuff

This is where I put other notes

[Stoeffel-1] Stoeffel, Kat (11 February 2014). "Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap — Reluctantly". New York Magazine.

[NYT31January2011-2] Cohen, Noam (31 January 2011). "Define gender gap? Look up Wikipedia's contributor list". The New York Times.

[3] Wikimedia Foundation (April 2011). Wikipedia Editors' Survey (pdf). Wikimedia Foundation.

[4] Hill, Benjamin Mako; Shaw, Aaron (June 2013). "The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation". PLOS ONE. 8 (6): e65782. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782.

[Gardner19February2011-5] Gardner, Sue (19 February 2011). "Nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words)". suegardner.org.

[6] Staff writer (8 August 2014). "Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance". BBC News. BBC.

[7] Eckert, Stine; Steiner, Linda (October 2013). "(Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia's gender gap". Journal of Communication Inquiry. 37 (4): 284–303. doi:10.1177/0196859913505618.

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