WikiWomen's User Group/Reports/2016

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 19, 2015 and July 18, 2016. WWUG has not applied for funding so no financial reporting is required.

Activities

July 2015, recognized as a Wikimedia user group
July 2015, Wikimania, presentation, “Content Gender Gap - how to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia”
October 2015, WikiConference USA, Washington D.C., presentation, “Women... it takes a village”
October 2015, Mentor for Kelly Doyle the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity at West Virginia University
January 2016: Wikipedia Day 15, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, California, presentation, “Perspectives on Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap”
April 2016: Mentor for Wiki Loves Women (Ghana and Nigeria teams)
April 2016: Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, Germany

Poster: “How to design and run a successful virtual editathon on a budget of $0… a Lightening Talk using the example of an event which ran for 31 days, attracted 71 participants & generated ~841 articles”
Lightening Talk: “How to design and run a successful virtual editathon on a budget of $0… a Lightening Talk using the example of an event which ran for 31 days, attracted 71 participants & generated ~841 articles”

June 2016: Diversity Conference, Washington, DC
June 2016: Wikimania, Esino Lario, Italy

WWUG co-founders, Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, co-Wikipedians of the Year
Wikimania Women’s Group (Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, Discussion Room)
Presentations and poster

Media

Oct 31, 2015 A Wikipedian’s perspective on gender imbalance, harassment, and the way forward
March 11, 2016: “How one young female scientist decided to cope with online harassment”
March 14, 2016: “Student praised for tackling 'sexist Wikipedia' by creating page for female scientist every time she's trolled“
Redden, Molly, "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?" , The Guardian, 19 March 2016
May 2016: podcast, "Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap" @ Promoting Secular Feminism
May 10, 2016: “For Every Sexist Email She Gets, This College Student Will Write A Wikipedia Entry About A Woman Scientist - Emily Temple-Wood has written hundreds of articles about women in science”
June 24, 2016, Erhart, Ed, "Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year", Wikimedia Blog
June 29, 2016: Radio3 Scienza, 29 June 2016, Esino Lario, Italy
July 4, 2016, Liu, Teresa Yinmeng, "Nevada City's Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight named co-Wikipedian of 2016 for addressing online gender gap", The Union

Presentations

"Content Gender Gap - how to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia" (Wikimania, Mexico City, 11 July 2015)
"Women... it takes a village" (WikiConference USA, Washington D.C., 10 October 2015)
"Perspectives on Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap" (Wikipedia Day 15, San Francisco, 16 January 2016)
"How to design a successful virtual editathon" (Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20 April 2016)
Poster - "How to design a successful virtual editathon" (Wikimedia Conference 2016; Wikimania 2016)
"How to design & run a successful virtual editathon" (GLAM Boot Camp, National Archives, Washington, DC, 16 June 2016)
"Using Wikimedia Grants to Address the Gender Gap" (Wikimedia Diversity Conference, National Archives, Washington, DC, 17 June 2016)
"Make Things Happen" (Wikimedia Diversity Conference, National Archives, Washington, DC, 17 June 2016)
"How to design & run a successful virtual editathon on a budget of $0" (Wikimania 2016)
"Content gender gap, an international movement" (Wikimania 2016)