Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender studies

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Important disclaimer: A few Wikipedians have got together to make some suggestions about how we might organise data in articles about Gender Studies. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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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.

Our total progress so far:

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This page is part of WikiProject Gender studies. This WikiProject aims to improve the quality of articles dealing with gender studies and to remove systematic gender bias from Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, you can choose to edit this page, or visit the project page for more information.Gender studiesWikipedia:WikiProject Gender studiesTemplate:WikiProject Gender studiesGender studies

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : see Unassessed Gender studies articles and Unknown-importance Gender studies articles
Cleanup : edit to see
Collaborate : see /Collaboration
Copyedit : edit to see
Deletion sorting : see /Sexuality and gender
Expand : edit to see
Infobox : see Gender studies articles needing infoboxes
Merge : edit to see
Notability : edit to see
NPOV : edit to see
Orphans : Brannon Masculinity Scale · Holy Virility · Media and gender · Michael Kaufman (author) · Women's education in Saudi Arabia
Photo : see Wikipedia requested photographs of gender studies
Split : History of feminism
Stubs : see Gender studies stubs
Translate : see /translation
Update : edit to see
Verify : Riot grrrl
Needs attention : see Gender studies articles needing attention

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About this Project

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, feminists, 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.
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).

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.
Take note of details limiting women to their physical characteristics. A woman'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.

Contributors

Useful Categories

Useful Templates

Template:WikiProject Gender Studies

Adopted articles

If there is an article that you are interested about within the scope of this project, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

To list your adopted article, feel free to post your username (by using four tildes (~)) and the article name below:

Feminism Wikibook - AmishThrasher 13:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Current Tasks

/to do - lists of articles that need attention. Please add all articles to be cleaned up to this page.

General

Gender Bias

Articles which display a gender bias that contributors can help to correct, or where the work of relevant Gender Studies researchers is not discussed (yet should be).

Biased Language

Usage of the terms "Miss" or "Mrs." should be changed to "Ms." or, preferably, removed entirely.

Description by Physical Characteristics

A woman's height and weight are generally considered irrelevant except in the cases of athletes and models.

Biased Pictures

Oftentimes, the images selected to represent women are among the most sexualized, and least humanizing. If possible, attempt to locate suitable alternatives.

Stubs, and Requested Articles

Articles on topics relevant to Gender Studies that either don't exist (but should), or alternatively are stubs which require much more depth (see also Category:Feminism stubs):

Requests for expansion

Articles which, while they exist, deserve a lot more depth.

Requests for review/attention

Articles that need to be cleaned up, or checked.