Wikipedia:Meetup/SF/Inspiring Women and Non-Binary Creatives to Address Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap 2025

Inspiring Women and Non-Binary Creatives to Address Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap

Presented by:

The Ruby, San Francisco

Slide deck

The Ruby, as an arts and letters-centric space, is a great community to mobilize around Women in Red and other gender gap initiatives. The Ruby’s mission is to uplift and nurture previously underrepresented voices in the arts while serving as a sanctuary for our majority QT and/or BIPOC women and non-binary community of creatives. We are an interdisciplinary group of writers, editors, academics, journalists, audio producers, visual artists, filmmakers, policy makers, teachers, social scientists, and more. We anticipate that making this a large, mission-driven community-based activity will serve as a welcoming space for those uninitiated but curious about Wikipedia to take part and will be an ideal setting for sustained participation within a community of passionate and civic-minded members.

Event description

We are compelled by the statistics that only 20.003% of all biographies on English Wikipedia are about women [Humaniki, December 2024] and that 13.6% of contributors identify as female and 1.7% identity as other.[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki: Community Insights/2018 Report].

We are aligned with WikiProject Women in Red's mission to address the content gender gap in Wikipedia as a means to combat systematic bias and further the cause of increasing access to women’s history and topics for all. The primary focus of this series is three-fold: raising awareness on the content gender gap on Wikipedia and systematic bias online amongst the San Francisco Bay Area creative community, educating and training creatives from across the Bay Area to edit Wikipedia, and provide the community support and infrastructure to sustain active participation as editors and advocates for scholarship and inclusion of women and non-binary stories and topics in Wikipedia; thus increasing articles about women and non-binary subjects and the representation of women and non-binary voluntary editors on Wikipedia.

Inspired by community leaders, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (user:Rosiestep), LiAnna Davis (User:Liannadavis), and Kelly Doyle Kim (User:KellyDoyle), Ruby members and extended community will take part in creating and editing articles on women and non-binary subjects drawn from lists generated by Women in Red. Participants will create a list of articles to edit and redlinks for Ruby members to research and edit, with an emphasis on women and non-binary writers and artists of color.

Who? What? When? Where?

Who: This event is meant for women-identifying and nonbinary community members.

Where: The Ruby, Mission District, San Francisco, USA (Address shared at RSVP)

When: You are welcome to join one or both sessions.

• Session 1: Friday, January 10, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
• Session 2: Saturday, January 11, 2025 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

What: Each session includes:

• Introduction to Wikipedia and its editing policies
• Overview regarding Wikipedia's gender-based issues (representation, participation, readership)
• Training and open editing. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary.
• Wiki-Salon: open discussion regarding Wikipedia+activism "in the tradition of the French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries"
• Lunch/dinner and snacks will be provided.

Pre-arrival checklist

Registration required

• Friday (session 1): https://lu.ma/768ylwsi
• Saturday (session 2): https://lu.ma/t63x41hp

If you wish to participate in the training and editing

• Please bring your own for laptop.
• Create a Wikipedia nickname here before you arrive.

Read

• We adhere to the friendly place policies of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• English Wikipedia's policy/guidance regarding biographies of living people

Index to wiki training info

Index to wiki training info

Videos Introduction to Wikipedia, index to 28 videos, by James Gaunt, via Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia editing tutorial, index to 10 videos, by Franklin Women, via Youtube A Wiki Minute, index to 13 one-minute videos, by Wikimedia Foundation, via YouTube Article ratings Learn more about the article rating system Wikipedia policies Username policy Five pillars Core content policies General notability guideline Verifiability Conflict of interest No original research & examples Identifying reliable sources Citing sources Primary sources Quick editing tips Getting started Your first article Referencing for beginners Creating "redirects" Using categories Cheatsheet for "Wiki markup" Manual of Style Tools & resources Track Wikipedia "page views" Wikimedia statistics Wiki Education Foundation & its online training modules Internet Archive Wayback Machine Wikimedia Wikimedia movement Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia; there are >300 language versions of Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject) Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects Wiktionary, a dictionary Wikibooks, educational textbooks Wikinews, news articles Wikiquote, a collection of quotations Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents Wikiversity, educational material Wikivoyage, a travel guide Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Day of event

Articles to edit

• List of Stub-class California women artists
• List of Stub-class California women writers
• List of Stub-class LGBT+ Californians
• List of Start-class LGBT+ writers

Sign in

Instructions: Click "Sign up". Click "Publish changes". Thanks for joining us today!

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• Rosiestep (talk) 15:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• Allisonyc (talk) 02:05, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• FelisObscura (talk) 02:06, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Seelight88 (talk) 02:06, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:08, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Em-uhhh (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Fishglitch (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Dreamyshade (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Calabashes (talk) 19:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Liannadavis (talk) 19:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

• Lakoks (talk) 23:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

• Communitygem (talk) 07:12, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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