WikiChix
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Welcome to WikiChix!
Offlist chat about the 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.
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
- Events
