Translations:Gender equity report 2018/Background/1/en

Rosiestep, principal interviewer

In April 2017, we launched the Gender Diversity Mapping Project. Our main goals were to understand the work Wikimedia communities are doing to advance gender equity, their major successes and challenges, and the impact of their efforts. We aimed to share best practices and lessons learned, identify common challenges, and inspire new initiatives across the movement. In the process of writing this report, we changed the name of this project from "gender diversity" to "gender equity" because we believe it better describes the purpose of the ongoing efforts in the Wikimedia communities. It also ties them more clearly to the Wikimedia movement strategic direction with its focus on knowledge equity.