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Further information: Gender bias on Misplaced Pages and Meta:Address the gender gap See also: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red
This task force is believed to be inactive.
Consider looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse.
If you are not currently a project participant and wish to help you may still participate in the project. This status should be changed if collaborative activity resumes.

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 Misplaced Pages, 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, "Misplaced Pages famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture." Misplaced Pages "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". Estimates of Wikipedians who are female have ranged from 8.5 in 2011 to 16.1 percent in 2013.

Issues that discourage women from editing include a perception of Misplaced Pages 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. 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."

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In memoriam

The following Wikipedians are now deceased. Their user names are preserved here in their memory.
  1. Kevin Gorman (talk · contribs)
  2. SlimVirgin (talk · contribs)

Templates

  • Copy this to your user page, including the squiggly brackets: {{GGTF userbox}}. It creates:
This user is a member of the
Gender gap task force
(GGTF).
  • Invite others to join! To invite someone, add {{subst:GGTF invitation}} to their talk page. This produces following welcome message:

We would love you to join the Gender Gap task force.

There you can coordinate with editors who are addressing the effect of the gender gap on women on Misplaced Pages – whether as article subjects, editors or readers. If you would like to help, please sign up or visit the talk page.

Happy editing, ~~~~

  • Mind the Gap Award For those who've done a great job. Paste the following template, with your own message, to the recipient's talk page:
    {{subst:Mind the Gap Award|1=Add your message here. ~~~~}}
Mind the Gap Award

Your message here.

To do

Measures

Affiliates of
WikiProject Women
African women
Architecture & design
Art
Business
Feminism
Health
Hip hop
History
History Month (March)
Jewish women
Journalism
Music
Religion
Scientists
Sport
Warfare & military
Writers
Missing articles department:
Women in Red
Article improvement department:
Women in Green
See also:
Gender gap task force
  • 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

Write essays

Improve 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. (There is a main Category:Women, and thousands of categories with "women" or "female" in their titles.)

Resources

Resources lists

Links

Non-Wikimedia communities

data+art : Gender Bias @Misplaced Pages

Related WikiProjects

Sport
Military

Notes

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