WikiWomen's User Group/Reports/2019

The WikiWomen’s User Group was recognized as a Wikimedia user group in July 19, 2015. This report outlines the accomplishments and activities supported by the group between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

Activities

Wikimedia Summit 2019

September 2018 - present: Training and mentoring the Core Team of 1000 Women in Religion regarding Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiCommons

November 2018, assisting with their first meeting at the World Parliament of Religions, Toronto, Canada
May 2019, assisting with their edit-a-thon at Holy Wisdom Monastery, Madison, Wisconsin, US
June 2019, assisting with their edit-a-thon at American Theological Library Association (ATLA), Vancouver, Canada

June 2019 - present: Training and mentoring the Core Team of Atari Women regarding Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiCommons
May 2019, Wikipedia training and editathon focused on gender equity at University of California, Irvine

Virtual edit-a-thons

Two on-going initiatives were sponsored this year on en.WP:

(Continuous) #1day1woman2019
(Year-long) Suffrage

2018

2019

Presentations

July 2018, "Advancing Gender Equity", Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa
July 2018, "Women in Red three year anniversary", Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa
October 2018, "Advancing Gender Equity", WikiConference North America, Columbus, Ohio, US
November 2017, "Wikipedia’s gender gap, and what would Hari Seldon do about it", Distinguished Speaker Series, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio, US
November 2018, "WikiCite & gender diversity visibility", WikiCite, Berkeley, California, US
November 2018, "Providing inspiration to Wiki Scholars", Online webinar for women's suffrage campaign at NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) facilitated by Wiki Education Foundation
November 2018, "Providing inspiration to Wikipedia Fellows", Online webinar for women in science facilitated by Wiki Education Foundation
February 2019, "Advancing Gender Equity", Wikipedia Day, Los Angeles, California, US
February 2019, "Wikipedia editing and gender gaps", Online webinar facilitated by Special Libraries Association's Education Division
April 2019, "Advancing Gender Equity", Annual AffCom Strategy Meeting, Berlin, Germany
May 2019, "Women Writers in Review", LD4 Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, US

Reflections

On attendance at Wikimedia Summit 2019

The focus of the Wikimedia Summit hosted in Berlin in March was the Movement Strategy Process and meetups with the Working Groups. The Diversity WG held productive sessions with members of other groups, affiliates, and foundation staff to identify problem areas, challenges, and strategies for moving forward. Some of the ideas that were discussed in the these sessions and the Women's luncheon included access to more reference materials and resources, community safety and a standard code of ethics, leadership quotas to diversify stakeholder governance, and developing better language and access tools, among many others. SusunW represented the WWUG at the conference and as part of the Diversity WG, reported that by charting the feedback they have begun formulating recommendations to increase diversity in the movement, including recommendations for digitizing references, a Code of Conduct, leadership quotas, and tools to map diversity and content gaps.