Grants talk:IdeaLab/WikiWomen's March

Great idea! An initial thought ...

An attractive, professional quality video could be very helpful. Organizations like the American Association of University Women and the American Library Association could be possibilities for partners ... and there must be many others. Djembayz (talk) 00:22, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Both of these organizations seem like great starts, and makes me think we might start building a partners list from here! I think you're right and there are probably lots of partners that would be interested, if we're able to provide 1) the inspiration and 2) the on-wiki support to keep them involved. Siko (WMF) (talk) 20:51, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

PPC campaign

I heard about the gender gap on NPR a while back and think it is an interesting problem to solve. What do you think about a PPC campaign. We could identify websites, or categories of websites, with disproportionately large amounts of women visitors. We could then identify wikipedia articles on subjects that are important to the visitors of these website, but need editing, revision, or more information. For example an ad on a craft blog might say: "This is the Wikipedia page for "Doily:" <screenshot or something showing it is really short. Emphasis on "this article is a stub."> Share your Doily knowledge, the world needs to know!", and clicking on the ad would take you to the doily article so you can edit it. The magic can happen here by picking super obscure super targeted things based on the website, that the viewers would be like "woah! the world needs to know what I know about ep 14 of season 1 of saved by the bell!" Asymboli (talk) 23:49, 29 April 2013‎ (UTC)

Interesting idea! I would be a bit worried about directing people to edit an article coming straight from another website - how to get them into the context/mindframe of encyclopedic writing when coming from Doily? Would this bring in great content, or too much random uncited cruft left for other editors to cleanup? Could be worth experimenting with, but would need to be done quite carefully I think. Siko (WMF) (talk) 20:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Love this

Having a focused time-period such as a month is a great way to focus energy and attention on this issue in a positive way.

• I think maybe it should be WikiWoman March, or WikiWomen March rather than WikiWomen's March. Also, most "month" campaigns have "month" in the title, so this might be better commonly referred to as "WikiWomen Month". Of course it would happen in March, but it wouldn't necessarily have March in the name (e.g. Black History Month). There's a slightly unfortunate connotation in "March", because it's also a verb with militant context. As this is more of a celebration of women and an invitation to women than it is a battle campaign, it might be good to consider unintended interpretations.
• What do you think about having a specific day within the month, like a Saturday that is WikiWomen Day, as part of a broader monthlong campaign. That might encourage editathon activity on that day, and trigger big media about it.
• This can focus not only on getting women to edit, but focusing on all editors editing articles on, about, related to women.

I think this is an excellent idea and actually gets me excited about gender gap issues which usually I find kinda depressing in the way they're discussed. Nice work! Ocaasi (talk) 14:39, 11 July 2013 (UTC)