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Welcome to the WikiProject Gender Studies! This WikiProject is aimed at improving the quality of articles dealing with gender studies, and at removing systematic gender bias from Wikipedia.
For a list of articles and tasks to contribute to, please see WikiProject Gender Studies/to do.
- See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gender_Studies/Notice_Board for alerting all users to AfDs, RfCs, disputes etc.
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Project overview
Observation suggests that males are over-represented on Wikipedia, though there has not been a proper survey to back this up. The aim of this Project is to correct any systematic gender bias on Wikipedia. If you're interested, add your name to the list of contributors!
Aims of this project
- Create or improve articles on feminism and masculism, feminists, trans issues, and articles dealing with gender studies.
- Correct any sexism or gender bias in Wikipedia articles.
- Where a feminist writer has written on a given topic, the view should be put forward on the appropriate article (as well as any criticisms or critiques).
- Improve or create articles on issues of interest to, or about, women, or about gender.
- Do so within Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy.
What this project is not
This project does not aim to correct a perceived pro-female or anti-male bias in Wikipedia. Nor does it seek to write general critiques of articles about gender-related topics.
This project does not aim to introduce a pro-female or anti-male bias, to advocate feminism (or any given variety of feminism) across Wikipedia. Nor does it seek to write feminist critiques of aspects of society without including criticisms of these views (where relevant).
This project does not seek to introduce a POV bias (to either articles, or Wikipedia in general). Rather, the aim is to improve the quality of articles, which deal with gender studies, within the Neutral Point of View policy.
How do I help?
Glad you asked! Feel free to sign up under contributors. If you come across an article which either needs attention, or alternatively that doesn't exist (even though it should), add it to the lists under "Requested articles", "Requests for expansion", or "Requests for review/attention" headings. If articles under those headings seem mature enough to no longer need attention, feel free to clean them off the list. If there are categories or templates you come across on Wikipedia which may be of interest to contributors of this project, feel free to add them under "Useful Categories" or "Useful Templates". You can also 'adopt' an article, or use the Discussion page to discuss issues relating to Gender Studies on Wikipedia. Finally, beyond Wikipedia, some contributors of this project are working on a Wikibook (textbook) on Feminism at Wikibooks (available here, feel free to contribute).
Project contributors
- AmishThrasher 03:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Seth Mahoney 02:06, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- Revolución (talk) 03:06, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sarge Baldy 23:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
- An An 01:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Ilessthan3you 21:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Ambi 13:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
- DinoMo 00:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Romarin 20:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- jessicanr 19 April 2006
- clm17 13:23, 26 May 2006
- Julia528 23:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- Chuchunezumi 02:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- CaveatLector 22:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Lquilter 13:23, 24 October 2006 (UTC) (particularly interested in addressing underrepresentation of entries about women, and female wikipedians)
- Mgoodyear 00:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)(History of feminism, Feminism, Brassiere and subarticles)
- Hannahlima 19:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC) Mariana Lima
- Cailil
- futurebird 01:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- ronnycary 04:33, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- Awadewit 13:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC) I am particularly interested in contributing articles about women from the eighteenth century.
- scribblingwoman (talk) 15:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- FemWriter
Userbox
There is a userbox available for members of this project:
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This user is a member of WikiProject Gender Studies |
{{User_WikiProject_Gender_Studies}}
Editing considerations
In combatting gender bias on Wikipedia, take particular consideration of the following examples of sexism:
- Usage of the terms "Miss" or "Mrs." should be changed to "Ms." or, preferably, removed entirely. Even calling an individual "Ms. Gallagher" is deferential in that it highlights gender and is more gentle than simply referring to her as "Gallagher", as is most often done with men.
- If you do remove the term "Mrs.", it is advisable to add a sentence to the article about who the woman is married to, if that is a relevant thing to note.
- Avoid referring to spouses in terms of ownership. For instance, instead of "Anderson was the wife of", "Anderson's husband", or "Anderson's wife was", be neutral and say "Anderson was married to".
- Take note of details limiting people to their physical characteristics. A person's height and weight are generally considered irrelevant except in the cases of models, athletes, and those to whom an attribute is seen as a dominating characteristic by the larger public. Similarly, remove infatuated comments related to appearance.
- Note that pictures can be POV representations as well. Oftentimes, the images selected to represent women are among the most sexualized, and least humanizing. If possible, attempt to locate suitable alternatives.
- There are times, though, when this consideration should be reconsidered. 'Sexualized' and 'humanizing' are not necessarily mutually exclusive categories, and this is an area that should be treated with care. Further, some in the public eye may have elected to present themselves as a sexualized image. Not respecting that choice may amount to showing a lack of respect for their rational capacities, and therefore be dehumanizing as well.
Departments
To Do List
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gender_Studies/to_do
Deletion discussions
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Sexuality and gender
Assessment & Peer Review
A main task of the Project Gender Studies is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Gender Studies articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. This also plays a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
It is easiest if you simply tag and assess articles as you come across or edit them, though you can go through Category:Gender studies if you wish. To find out more, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Assessment.
Collaboration
Project Gender Studies runs frequent collaborations to encourage as much of the Project as possible to use their editing skills to bring one article up to Featured Article standard a month. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Collaboration for more information.
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The current Project Gender Studies Collaboration is to be decided. |
Translation
If you have another language besides English, please consider adding your name to our List of Translators. A list of articles for translation is here
Barnstar Award
There is an offical Gender studies barnstar for anyone who has made significant contributions to Gender studies articles:
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The Gender studies barnstar is awarded to editors who make significant contributions to Gender studies articles, categories or portals and expanding Wikipedia’s knowledge about gender, gender theory, feminisms, masculinities or sexuality studies. |
approved Wednesday 21 Feb, 2007
Useful Resources
Categories
- Category:Gender studies
- Category:Feminism
- Category:feminists
- Category:Women's universities and colleges in the United States
- Category:Modernist women writers
- Category:Feminism stubs
Templates
- {{WikiProject Gender Studies}}
- {{WikiProject Gender Studies Tasks}}
- {{User WikiProject Gender Studies}}
- {{WikiProject Gender Studies Navigation}}
- {{WikiProject Gender Studies Tasks}}
- {{WikiProject Gender Studies Collaboration}}
Stubs
- {{Fem-stub}}
Other
Current tasks
| WikiProject Gender Studies Tasks to do. |
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