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Below are listings of projects relevant to closing the "Gender Gap". They are run by the Wikimedia Foundation or volunteers at Wikimedia.org and English-language Wikipedia.

Wikimedia.org projects

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Gender gap projects

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Diversity projects

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Outreach project

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Wikimedia blog entries

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Sue Gardner essays

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Sue Gardner was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation) from 2007 to 2014 and lead the Wikimedia Foundation's initial efforts to close the gender gap. These essays from her blog provide an insight on her thinking about the gender gap during that period.

Wikimania

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  • Wikimania. The last several years have included several workshops and speeches about the gendergap.
  • WikiWomen's lunches have been held at several Wikimanias

En.Wikipedia Gender gap projects

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Wikiprojects

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See links to English-language Wikipedia Gender gap-related wikiprojects on the Gender gap task force main page.

Resources

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See links to English-language Wikipedia Gender gap-related resources on the Gender gap task force main page.

Sign Post articles

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Wikipedia articles

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Relevant essays

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Women-related article lists

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Workshops and Edit-a-thons

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(Small sample of selected events of interest.)

Help pages

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Audio and video
Images

Civility issues

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These are of particular interest to many women and men.

At Wikimedia Foundation

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At Wikimedia.org

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  • Terms of Use: Civility and related minefields
  • Friendly space policy (Note: Discussion about overly vague language might be appropriate.)
  • Andrea Weckerle, Foreward by Jimmy Wales, Civility in the Digital Age: How Companies and People Can Triumph over Haters, Trolls, Bullies and Other Jerks, Que Publishing, 2013,, various pages.ISBN 978-0-13-313498-8
  • Jimmy Wales, Speech on Civility to Wikimania 2014, London, August 11, 2014, (unofficial transcript) and video of the speech

At English language Wikipedia

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