WikiChix
From WikiChix
Welcome to WikiChix!
Offlist chat about the recent discussions on systemic gender bias in Wikipedia made it clear that a number of women were not comfortable contributing to the conversation there. This inspired the creation of WikiChix in November 2006. WikiChix is a wiki and mailing list for female wiki editors to discuss issues of gender bias in wikis, to promote wikis to potential female editors, and for general discussion of wikis in a friendly female-only environment.
This new community is named after, and inspired by, LinuxChix, the women-oriented community for Linux users.
If you are female and interested in wikis, please join the mailing list.
Pages in Category:Public pages are viewable by unregistered users, while others are restricted to registered users. Editing of public pages by unregistered users is currently disabled due to MediaWiki bug 8462.
If you are a female interested in wikis, please contact us to join the wiki and the wikichix mailing list. There is also an IRC channel at #wikichix on freenode.
The FAQs for related communities answer a lot of questions about why this was created, so please read those for more information until we have our own FAQ.
Areas to develop:
- Experiences and testimony, histories
- Examples of bias
- What the... Strange behavior and harassing emails repository
- Positive ideas for moving forward
- Action items
- Workshops online and offline; Wiki editing house parties
- Tech help or peer mentoring
