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Gender gap task force: exploring and closing the gender gap on Misplaced Pages

Welcome to the Gender gap task force, a task force belonging to WikiProject Countering systemic bias. A task force consists of a group of editors devoted to the management of a particular issue or topic on Misplaced Pages. This page has been set up to ease coordination of our efforts.

If you'd like to help out in any way, please add your name to the list of participants.

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Scope

Further information: Meta:Gender gap

The aim of the task force is to identify gender bias on Misplaced Pages (including gender bias in articles, the selection of articles maintained, discussions, editor interactions, policies and implementation of policies), take steps to counter it, and raise awareness of how the gender gap can affect editorial and other decisions.

As WP:BIAS notes, a 2011 Wikimedia Foundation survey found that 8.5 percent of editors were women. The gender gap has not been closing and, on average, female editors leave Misplaced Pages earlier than male editors. Research suggests that the gender gap has a detrimental effect on content coverage. Articles of particular interest to women tend to be shorter, and women typically perceive Misplaced Pages to be of lower quality than men do.

Article selection based on gender bias

Main article: Gender imbalance on Misplaced Pages

Misplaced Pages has a longstanding controversy concerning gender bias and sexism which has been associated with the selection of articles which are maintained in the open-source encyclopedia. Misplaced Pages has been criticized by some journalists and academics for lacking not only women contributors but also extensive and in-depth encyclopedic attention to many topics regarding gender. An article in The New York Times cites a Wikimedia Foundation study which found that fewer than 13% of contributors to Misplaced Pages are women. Sue Gardner, previously executive director of the foundation, said that increasing diversity was about making the encyclopedia "as good as it could be." She previously had set a policy goal for increasing enrollment to 25% by 2015. She has discussed the goal of recruiting 25 percent administrators in the near term and eventually towards 50%.

Factors the article cited as possibly discouraging women from editing included the "obsessive fact-loving realm," associations with the "hard-driving hacker crowd," and the necessity to be "open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even misogynists."

Participants

  1. Czar (talk · contribs)
  2. Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs)
  3. SlimVirgin (talk · contribs)
  4. Gobonobo (talk · contribs)
  5. Superbellymonster (talk) 03:29, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
  6. GRuban (talk · contribs)
  7. Samsara9 (talk · contribs)
  8. Carolmooredc (talk · contribs)
  9. Djembayz (talk · contribs)
  10. DStrassmann (talk · contribs)
  11. Piotrus (talk · contribs)
  12. Geraldshields11 (talk · contribs)
  13. The Vintage Feminist (talk · contribs)
  14. BoboMeowCat (talk · contribs)
  15. Obiwankenobi (talk · contribs) Interested in categories
  16. Rosiestep (talk · contribs)
  17. Mssemantics (talk · contribs)
  18. SPECIFICO talk
  19. Tutelary (talk · contribs)
  20. kmccook (talk · contribs)
  21. Mark Miller (talk · contribs)
  22. Maximilianklein (talk · contribs)
  23. Steeletrap (talk · contribs)
  24. Kerry (talk) 22:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
  25. Keilana (talk · contribs)
  26. SusanLesch (talk · contribs)
  27. User:Robert McClenon
  28. Scalhotrod (talk · contribs)
  29. Cullen328 (talk · contribs)
  30. Montanabw (talk · contribs)
  31. magsmacaulay (talk · contribs)
  32. Ever wonder (talk · contribs) Interested/supporter, unsure how actively I'll be able to help.

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User box

Feel free to place this user box on your user page. {{WP:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias/Gender_gap_task_force/gendergaptaskforce}} which creates

This user is a member of the
Gender gap task force
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Invite others!

Invite others to join! To perform a request, insert {{subst:Gender gap TF invitation}} into their talk page. This results in the following welcome message:

We invite you to join Gender Gap task force. There you can coordinate with users who are trying to identify gender bias on Misplaced Pages (including gender bias in articles, in editor interactions, policies and implementation of policies) and take steps to counter it. If you would like to get involved, just visit the Gender Gap task force. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or other members of the task force.Happy editing, Carolmooredc (Talkie-Talkie) 16:37, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Mind the Gap Award

To use this award paste the following template with your own message on the userpage: {{subst:Mind the Gap Award|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}

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To do

For a more comprehensive list, see WP:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks § Women and women's studies.

Affirmative action measures

  • Set targets for numbers of women in Misplaced Pages, actively recruit women editors and administrators, help retain women editors by offering aid on issues women face more than do men.
  • Other affirmative action-type proposals that might help women effectively deal with bias and continue editing.

Improve biographies of women

Improve "Resource", "Policy" and "Help" pages

Categorization

Main page: Misplaced Pages:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
  • Ensure that categories are used in accordance with the guideline above. Promote changes in the FA and GA criteria to ensure that promoted articles are correctly categorized. (Note: There is a main Category:Women and thousands of categories that have "Women" in their titles. There also are a couple thousand categories with "female" in the title.)

Write essays

Resources

Related projects in other communities These will have useful information, but aren't necessarily organized by or run for Wikimedia communities.

Related WikiProjects

Notes

  1. "Editor Survey Report – April 2011", Wikimedia Foundation, accessed 7 January 2011.
  2. Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, et al, "WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Misplaced Pages’s Gender Imbalance", WikiSym’11, 3–5 October 2011.
  3. S. Lim and N. Kwon, "Gender differences in information behavior concerning Misplaced Pages, an unorthodox information source?", Library & Information Science Research, 32(3), 2010, pp. 212–220.
  4. ^ Cassell, Justine (February 4, 2011). "Editing Wars Behind the Scenes". New York Times.
  5. ^ Noam Cohen, "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Misplaced Pages's Contributor List," The New York Times. Found at The New York Times, January 31, 2011.
  6. "Misplaced Pages's Women Problem". Nybooks.com. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  7. Misplaced Pages's Sexism Toward Women Novelists
  8. Dunn, Gaby (2013-05-01). "Does Sexism Lurk?". Dailydot.com. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  9. Zandt, Deanna. "Yes, Misplaced Pages is Sexist". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2013-11-19.