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;Women’s History Month – revisiting our work on the Wikipedia gender gap


[[File:Europeana_logo_black.svg|200px|right|The Europeana logo]]
[[File:Mind_the_gap1.svg|175px|right|Mind the Wikipedia gender gap!]]


''This post was written by Liam Wyatt and was [http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/new-recommendations-outline-ways-to-strengthen-europeanas-future originally published here]. Re-used with kind permission.''
The [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap Wikipedia gender gap] is well documented and is one of the biggest challenges facing the global Wikimedia movement. To help support this campaign Wikimedia UK is running a retrospective review of its projects related to gender over the last few years. This will take place during March – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month Women’s History Month].


In light of the [http://strategy2020.europeana.eu/ Europeana 2020 strategic plan], what shape should Europeana’s relationship to Wikipedia and the wider Wikimedia community take in the years to come? To find an answer to this question, a [http://pro.europeana.eu/network/task-forces Europeana Network Task Force] was formed with a mix of people drawn from the Europeana network of GLAMs as well as active members of the Wikimedia community. It was chaired by Jesse de Vos from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, now at Wikimedia Netherlands, and had a clear mission to reach final recommendations that benefited both Europeana and Wikimedia.
As a chapter Wikimedia UK recognises the importance of all types of diversity within our community and gender is an important aspect of this. With only around 8-14% of Wikipedia editors identifying as female there is much to be done to ensure that the incredible knowledge resources of the Wikimedia projects are reflective of the sum of all knowledge.


Together, the group has produced a report outlining ten ways in which Europeana and Wikimedia can build on their successful cooperation.
We are also seeking personal opinion pieces from people involved in some of those projects to explore how we can do better and why it is important we as a movement take on this challenge. If you would like to share your gender gap-related projects and stories, please do get in touch, either through the comments on by emailing stevie.benton{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk


The first task was to create an overview of all past Wikimedia activities that Europeana has had involvement in. This [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Europeana/Projects list of past and current projects] was built on-wiki (where else?) and shows very clearly the depth and breadth of the existing relationship.
In related news, the Wikimedia Foundation has recently announced that its Inspire Grants Programme will focus on supporting projects related to the Wikipedia gender gap until the end of April. This is an experiment that, if successful, may see a more theme-focused grants programme in future. You can [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign find out more about the programme here].


The second half of the six-month review then focused on developing 10 strategic recommendations which would make this relationship even stronger over the next five years.
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“Europeana has a long standing relationship with the Wiki community. With the development of the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset GLAMwiki Toolset], publishing to Wikimedia has become an intrinsic part of our publication policy and we would like to expand on this relationship for the benefit of our data partners. The recommendations in the report of the taskforce amplify that ambition, and we will investigate how we can act upon each of them.”
(Harry Verwayen, Europeana Foundation)
 
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