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Welcome to the gender gap task force (GGTF), one of the task forces of WikiProject Countering systemic bias. The GGTF was started in 2013 to address some of the problems women face on Wikipedia, whether as editors or article subjects. After its formation, the task force became a central location for discussing gender on Wikipedia during GamerGate, which was a harassment campaign in 2014. In the following year, two of the task force's most active members were banned. These events established the GGTF as an community-defining space of contestation within Wikipedia's public sphere.{{cite journal |last1=Jankowski |first1=Steve |title=Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013-2023) |journal=Internet Histories |date=2024 |volume=0 |issue=0 |pages=1-22 |doi=10.1080/24701475.2024.2425150 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2024.2425150 |access-date=March 18, 2025}} If you'd like to help, please add your name to the list of participants.

According to New York Magazine in 2014, "Wikipedia famously bears one of the starkest gender gaps in contemporary culture."{{cite news | last = Stoeffel | first =Kat |title = Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap — Reluctantly | url = http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/02/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-reluctantly.html | work = New York Magazine | date = 11 February 2014 }} Wikipedia "shares many characteristics with the hard-driving hacker crowd", according to Joseph Reagle of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is "open to very difficult, high-conflict people, even misogynists".{{cite news | last = Cohen | first = Noam | title = Define gender gap? Look up Wikipedia's contributor list | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html | work = The New York Times | date = 31 January 2011 }} Estimates of Wikipedians who are female have ranged from 8.5 in 2011 to 16.1 percent in 2013.{{cite book | last = Wikimedia Foundation| author-link = Wikimedia Foundation | title = Wikipedia Editors' Survey | url = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = Wikimedia Foundation | date = April 2011 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Hill | first1 = Benjamin Mako | last2 = Shaw | first2 = Aaron | title = The Wikipedia gender gap revisited: characterizing survey response bias with propensity score estimation | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 8 | issue = 6 | page = e65782 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 | date = June 2013 |doi-access=free}}

Issues that discourage women from editing include a perception of Wikipedia as sexist; a lack of confidence and spare time; problems with the editing interface; the belief that editing is tedious; unease because of the inclusion of pornography; and fewer opportunities to develop social relationships than on other websites.{{cite web | last = Gardner | first =Sue | author-link = Sue Gardner | title = Nine reasons women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words) | url = http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/ | website = suegardner.org | date = 19 February 2011 }}{{cite news | last = Staff writer | title = Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance | url = http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28701772 | work = BBC News | publisher = BBC | date = 8 August 2014 }} Despite significant evidence to the contrary, certain commentators have denied that the gender gap is a problem, citing efforts to highlight it as "feminist ideology."{{Cite journal | last1 = Eckert | first1 = Stine | last2 = Steiner | first2 = Linda | author-link2 = Linda Steiner | title = (Re)triggering backlash: responses to news about Wikipedia’s gender gap | journal = Journal of Communication Inquiry | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | pages = 284-303 | doi = 10.1177/0196859913505618 | date = October 2013 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859913505618}}

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Participants

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In memoriam

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  1. {{User|Kevin Gorman}}
  2. {{User|SlimVirgin}}

Templates

  • Copy this to your user page, including the squiggly brackets: {{tlb|GGTF userbox}}. It creates:

::::{{GGTF userbox}}

  • Invite others to join! To invite someone, add {{subst:GGTF invitation}} to their talk page. This produces following welcome message:

{{GGTF invitation}}

  • Mind the Gap Award For those who've done a great job. Paste the following template, with your own message, to the recipient's talk page:
    {{subst:Mind the Gap Award|1=Add your message here. ~~~~}}

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Your message here.

To do

=Measures=

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Nav}}

  • Recruit women.
  • Help to retain them by offering assistance.
  • Consider proposals that might help editors deal with gender-gap bias.
  • Promote! Promote! Promote! Use the templates above and talk up the project to other editors.

= Write articles =

= Write essays =

=Improve policy and help pages=

= Categorization =

{{main|Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality}}

  • Ensure that categories are used in accordance with the guideline above. (There is a main :Category:Women, and thousands of categories with "women" or "female" in their titles.)

Resources

=Resources lists=

=Links=

=Non-Wikimedia communities=

  • [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com Geek Feminism Wiki], Wikia
  • [http://geekfeminism.org/ GeekFeminism], blog
  • [http://adainitiative.org/ The Ada Initiative], non-profit working to increase participation of women in technology

=data+art : Gender Bias @Wikipedia=

  • [http://moebio.com/research/wikipediagender/#tv_programs&films&books&emotions&cities&sports&from_list Wikipedia Gender – female & male editors in Wikipedia articles]
  • [http://passingon.natematias.com Gender in New York Times obituaries]°

Related WikiProjects

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Notes

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Category:WikiProject Gender studies

Category:WikiProject Countering systemic bias

Category:WikiProjects relevant for countering systemic bias

Category:Women-related WikiProjects