Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-16/WikiProject report


 * Wikimedia España and Amical Wikimedia held an edit-a-thon in Valencia, Spain about women in architecture, in collaboration with ETS de Arquitectura of Polytechnic University of Valencia. Gender gap is a problem that requires attention. One of the most worrying facts is that the percentage of women in our presential activities usually reaches 60% or more while the number of editors claiming to be women are less than 20% at best. When people hide data it usually means something is wrong. B25es (talk) 20:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * "No one expects the gap to go away entirely—that would be a false representation of history—but it can be lessened" &mdash; Not if male chauvinist pigs start the wikiProject Men in Red. - üser:Altenmann >t 21:04, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Great article providing all the essentials. But the article's author fails to highlight her own vital contribution to the exercise, namely providing an excellent support page of red-linked names of women in science and technology which served as a basis for article creation. All the blue-linked names have now been deleted but those interested in progress can look at the page history. Together with other members of the project, she has also been developing pages of red-linked women in a wide variety of fields. Amazing work!--Ipigott (talk) 21:10, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Well done on the project, but this annoys me. "Some articles were nominated for deletion; however, most survived the articles for deletion (AfD) process. These articles, created by newer editors unfamiliar with the notability guidelines, were improved by adding references that proved notability." This should be lesson 2 in any edit-a-thon.  "Reliable references aren't optional & notability isn't what you think it is." (lesson 1 I assume is "yes, you - and anyone else - can really edit almost anything").  I'm sure nothing demoralises a new editor more than the threat of deletion of "their" article.  If that problem with edit-a-thons is addressed, then they are essential to fixing holes in our coverage, as natural attrition doesn't work, and the only other way is a single editor/project on a crusade, and there aren't many of those around. The-Pope (talk) 17:10, 21 December 2015 (UTC)