Comments on: WikiWomen Unite!

By: Sarah Stierch

Sarah Stierch — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:45:27 +0000

Hi there! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that allies are an integral part of closing any type of gender gap. I also believe it’s very important to empower minorities – albeit gender or race, etc. – so they can feel safe and comfortable in an environment where they are not the majority. Our project is not exclusive – while it is geared and focused towards engaging women around the world, plenty of men like our page on Facebook, participate in the conversations, and soon we have a male Wikipedian writing a blog about women at GLAMs and a project he did in England with them.

Thank you for your support, and I do hope you’ll participate!

By: Hubertl

Hubertl — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:42:30 +0000

I find such an initiative quite outstanding, but I think it is problematic to reduce the participation exclusively on women. Otherwise it may happen that this become something like a minority statement. The idea is to achieve a common work to create an atmosphere where women feel comfortable and also are not constantly forced to have to adapt to the masculine form of communication and working. And this

Also I would like to work in and for Wikipedia together with women, I do this as a Wikipedian in Residence Vienna every day. The experiences that I make is by no means the that women want to work among themselves. It should be primarily changed the environment. This, I believe, can be achieved only together with men. Even if it is very necessary that women communicate with one another and also question their own strategies in a man-dominated wikipedia-world.

By: kellerkind

kellerkind — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:45:18 +0000

Coooooooooool! :-)