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Past and current initiatives
| Focus | Project page(s) | Coordinator | Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content | Viquidones Wikiproject (Gender gap in Catalan language) | Tiputini, Kippelboy et al. | 2016- |
| Content | WikiWomen's History Month Events | Missvain, Another believer et al. | 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Content | Art & Feminism Meetups | Dorothy Howard, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Siân Evans and others. | 2014, 2015 and 2016 |
| Content | Women Scientists Workshop Development, and the Systemic Bias Workshop Kit | Keilana | 2014-15 |
| Content | WikiWomen Prize | Egypt Wikimedians User Group | 2014 |
| Content | The Wikidata game, gender tagging | Magnus Manske | ongoing |
| Content and culture | Gender gap task force, English Wikipedia | Sarah (SV) | ongoing |
| Culture | Outreachy, a technical outreach program for women | Quim Gil | 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Culture | Wikipedia Teahouse | Teahouse Hosts | 2011 - onwards |
| Culture | WikiWomen's Collaborative | Missvain, Netha Hussain, et al | 2012 onwards |
| Convening | WikiWomenCamp | Laura Hale, Béria Lima, and Beatriz Busaniche | 2012 |
| Convening | Wikimedia Diversity Conference | Wikimedia Deutschland | 2013 |
| Research | Charting diversity | Wikimedia Deutschland | 2014 |
| Research | Women and Wikipedia | Amanda Menking | 2014-15 |
| Campaign | Inspire Campaign, and grants to address the gender gap | Siko Bouterse, Alex Wang, Jonathan Morgan and team | March 2015 |
| Campaign | Let's Talk Diversity campaign addresses the many cultural and demographic gaps on Wikimedia projects, and aims to generate a pool of knowledge to support Inspire Campaign. | María Cruz, Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez, Pine and team | February - March 2015 |
| Content, Culture | Editatona: reduce the gender gap in Wikipedia projects from Mexico | Carmen Alcázar, WMMX community and Mexican NGO gender-focused members | Planning: September 2014. Implementation: January 2015 |
| Content | Women in Red, content gender gap WikiProject, English Wikipedia | Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight | July 2015 onwards |
| Culture | WikiWomen's User Group | Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Keilana, FloNight, et al | July 2015 onwards |
| Content | Just For The Record | Loraine Furter, Léonie Butler, MMelvaer, Sarah magnan. | 2015 and onwards |
| Content and outreach | Wiki Loves Women | IslaHaddow, Anthere | Jan 2016 onwards |
| Content | Les sans pagEs on French Wikipedia | Nattes à chat and other participants | Began on June 2016 |
| Content | WikiDonne, content gender gap WikiProject, Italian Wikipedia | Camelia Boban | August 2016 onwards |
| Culture | WikiDonne's User Group | Camelia Boban, Antonietta Cima, Susanna Giaccai and others | November 2016 onwards |
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