Grants talk:Project/Magioladitis/Why women don’t edit Wikipedia/Final

Report accepted

Dear Magioladitis,

Thank you for submitting this Final Report! I am accepting it with the following comments:

• Your opening summary is quite a showcase of all the work you did in the project. Definitely leaves me excited to learn more!
• In regard to your project goals and how you achieved them, I wonder if you could add more information about the absolute results for your specific project, in addition to the larger picture of Greek Wikipedia's content and community makeup as a whole? For example, do you have any information about how many female volunteers became new editors as a result of your project? Do you know anything about how many of them continue to edit now? Do you have specific numbers about number of articles created or improved? Since you set goals specifically in relation to content and contributors, it would be valuable to have an idea of how much your project, specifically, affected both. I see that you have provided extensive information about individual events in your report's gallery of attachments, so this information may be provided in a more distributed format. If you do have comprehensive figures, though, I think they are worth adding right at the top.
  • In relation to reducing the gender gap, I wanted to ask if you could give me some help with interpreting the chart demonstrating that the gender gap was reduced. Would you be willing to offer an explanation to go with the chart? It says females and males in elwiki, and so I initially assumed that this was just a straight forward representation of numbers of contributors over time. However, because the lines appear to be mirror images of each other, I am not sure.
• Kudos to Markellos for making such a big contribution of women-related items on Wikidata! And kudos to Geraki for initiating a Wikiproject Women in Red in Greek Wikipedia. My understanding is that these initiatives were not part of this grant project, but rather new projects inspired by it. It's wonderful that your project had this effect of inspiring people to contribute in big ways.
• Thank you for linking to the digest in English about the hackathon. I was interested to read more about how it went. You mentioned that follow-up emails were sent later to help keep participants posted with community updates. I'm curious if you have noticed any ongoing engagement from the participants in the hackathon in the wake of the event.
• I may have missed it, but if not, may I ask you to provide a link to the tutorial video on how to assign gender on Wikipedia and the video presenting the gender gap issue (recorded from talk)?
• I would love to learn more about what you learned from the questionnaires. Perhaps we might set up a call in which you could share by voice some of your findings? I also appreciate that you provided links to the articles.
• I would love to hear your reflections and thoughts about why you think so many of the female participants in your projects were hesitant to participate more actively.

As I mentioned briefly, I would love to set up a time to talk further about your project and hear more about your experience and what you learned. I will contact you by email about this.

I also wanted to make sure you saw the Gender Equity Report recently published by the Community Resources team. I think it will interest you in light of your work in this area.

Kind regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 02:34, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Dear Marti (WMF) thanks for everything: the constant support, the ideas we exchanged, the time you invested on helping me, the greta comments. Everything.

• On the chart: I added some explanation ot the final report. See here.
• On the videos: I added links to the summary table. See here.
• On the ongoing engagement: We certainly have more females attending our events. We don't keep full record on that but the difference when looking at the audience is noticable. Another thing to notice is that for example the Jury of Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 contains now 4 females, 1 transgender and 2 males. Similar things you can now notice in most of our events.

We can arrange a video call during next week or we could meet in person during CEE Meeting in Lviv? I noticed that you are coming too. More things to come soon. I'll ping you as soon as I have them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the updates, Magioladitis, and great idea to meet during CEE in Lviv! Let's plan on it! --Marti (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I would like also to thank Alex Wang for her help, tips, discussions. It was amazing working with you for more than a year and I hope the cooperation continues in the future. In fact, I am sure it will do! -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Magioladitis. I was finally able to read the report and I wanted to congratulate you on successful project! I know this project took a lot of time and energy and lots of dedication. It's clear that you learned a lot and that the impact is widespread in terms of building connections with aligned organizations, increasing awareness in and outside of the Wikimedia movement, and increasing female participation overall both online and offline. I'm looking forward to hear more. Best, Alex Wang (WMF) (talk) 19:38, 18 October 2018 (UTC)