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Welcome to the '''gender gap task force''' ('''GGTF'''), one of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/Task_forces|task forces]] of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias|WikiProject Countering systemic bias]]. The GGTF was started in 2013 to address some of the problems women face on Wikipedia, whether as editors or article subjects. After its formation, the task force became a central location for discussing gender on Wikipedia during [[Gamergate_(harassment_campaign)|GamerGate]], which was a harassment campaign in 2014. In the following year, two of the task force's most active members were banned. These events established the GGTF as an community-defining space of contestation within Wikipedia's [[Public_sphere#Counterpublics,_feminist_critiques_and_expansions|public sphere]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jankowski |first1=Steve |title=Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013-2023) |journal=Internet Histories |date=2024 |volume=9 |issue=1–2 |pages=31–52 |doi=10.1080/24701475.2024.2425150 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2024.2425150 |access-date=March 18, 2025}}</ref> If you'd like to help, please add your name to the [[#Participants|list of participants]].<br />
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According to ''New York Magazine'' in 2014, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture."<ref name=Stoeffel>{{cite news | last = Stoeffel | first =Kat |title = Closing Wikipedia's Gender Gap — Reluctantly | url = http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-reluctantly.html | work = [[New York (magazine)|New York Magazine]] | date = 11 February 2014 }}</ref> Wikipedia "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".<ref name=NYT31January2011>{{cite news | last = Cohen | first = Noam | title = Define gender gap? Look up Wikipedia's contributor list | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 31 January 2011 }}</ref> Estimates of Wikipedians who are female have ranged from 8.5 in 2011 to 16.1 percent in 2013.<ref>{{cite book | last = Wikimedia Foundation| author-link = Wikimedia Foundation | title = Wikipedia Editors' Survey | url = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf | publisher = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] | date = April 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hill | first1 = Benjamin Mako | last2 = Shaw | first2 = Aaron | title = The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation | journal = [[PLOS ONE]] | volume = 8 | issue = 6 |article-number=e65782 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 |doi-access=free | date = June 2013 | pmid = 23840366 | bibcode = 2013PLoSO...865782H }}</ref> <br />
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Issues that discourage women from editing include a perception of Wikipedia 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.<ref name=Stoeffel/><ref name=Gardner19February2011>{{cite web | last = Gardner | first =Sue | author-link = Sue Gardner | title = Nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words) | url = http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/ | website = suegardner.org | date = 19 February 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Staff writer | title = Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance | url = http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28701772 | work = [[BBC News]] | publisher = [[BBC]] | date = 8 August 2014 }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Eckert | first1 = Stine | last2 = Steiner | first2 = Linda | author-link2 = Linda Steiner | title = (Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia's gender gap | journal = [[Journal of Communication Inquiry]] | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | pages = 284–303 | doi = 10.1177/0196859913505618 | date = October 2013 }}</ref><br />
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== In memoriam ==<br />
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==Templates==<br />
*Copy this to your user page, including the squiggly brackets: {{tlb|GGTF userbox}}. It creates:<br />
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*'''Invite others to join!''' To invite someone, add '''<nowiki>{{subst:GGTF invitation}}</nowiki>''' to their talk page. This produces following welcome message:<br />
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*'''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:<br/> '''<nowiki>{{subst:Mind the Gap Award|1=Add your message here. ~~~~}}</nowiki>'''<br />
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==To do==<br />
===Measures===<br />
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Nav}}<br />
* Recruit women.<br />
* Help to retain them by offering assistance.<br />
* Consider proposals that might help editors deal with gender-gap bias.<br />
* Promote! Promote! Promote! Use the templates above and talk up the project to other editors.<br />
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=== Write articles ===<br />
* [[User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list]]<br />
* [[User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list#Related_lists]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red]]<br />
* Add images to biographies of women; see [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wp_no_image/enwiki.html biographies with no image despite one being available on Commons].<br />
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=== Write essays ===<br />
* See [[Wikipedia:Writing about women]].<br />
* Write essays on the problems women editors face, how Wikipedia's dispute-resolution processes can be improved. Consider ideas from this [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Statement_of_purpose:_communities_including_men "geek feminism" page] on working with men.<br />
* Write essay on [[Wikipedia:Functional versus intentional sexism]].<br />
* Write essay on [[Wikipedia:Unwanted interaction]].<br />
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===Improve policy and help pages===<br />
* Many policy pages need to deal better with issues of concern to women, particularly [[Wikipedia:Civility]], [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]], [[Wikipedia:Harassment]] and [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]].<br />
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=== Categorization ===<br />
{{main|Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality}}<br />
* 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.)<br />
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==Resources==<br />
===Resources lists===<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/Media and research |Media and academic articles]] on Wikipedia's gender gap<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/projects| Wikimedia and en.Wikipedia Gender Gap action projects]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force/related_resources| Related resources]]: projects and writings<br />
* [[User:Sphilbrick/Gender_Gap_resources|Sortable list of resources]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:General background on risks for women on Wikipedia and the Internet]]<br />
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===Links===<br />
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap Gender Gap at Wikimedia]<br />
*[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_on_Wikipedia_Month Women on Wikipedia Month]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Teahouse]], for new users<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_111731472234343 Wikipedia Women], Facebook<br />
* [[:m:WikiDonne|WikiDonne]] UG & [[:it:Progetto:WikiDonne|WikiDonne project]] in Italian WIkipedia<br />
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===Non-Wikimedia communities===<br />
* [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com Geek Feminism Wiki], Wikia<br />
* [http://geekfeminism.org/ GeekFeminism], blog<br />
* [http://adainitiative.org/ The Ada Initiative], non-profit working to increase participation of women in technology<br />
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===data+art : Gender Bias @Wikipedia===<br />
* [http://moebio.com/research/wikipediagender/#tv_programs&films&books&emotions&cities&sports&from_list Wikipedia Gender – female & male editors in Wikipedia articles]<br />
* [http://passingon.natematias.com Gender in New York Times obituaries]°<br />
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==Related WikiProjects==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Feminism]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Women and gender issues]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish Women]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject UO Weaving Women Into Wikipedia]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Health]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Green]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in psychology]] (PSYCH+Feminism)<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women writers]]<br />
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;Sport<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject National Basketball Association/WNBA task force]]<br />
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport]]<br />
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;Military<br />
*[[WP:GLAM/PMML]]<br />
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