English: The WikiGap campaign’s intention is to reduce the gender gap on Wikipedia and hopefully make more women interested in editing encyclopedic articles. By highlighting prominent women in Wikipedia, the possibilities for an increased gender aware society in general are also improved.

The guiding question for the workshop is “How do we get an increased commitment during WikiGap based on the experiences we gained when we worked with the campaign in 2018 and 2019?”

The structure of the workshop will look like this:

Part one. An initial presentation of WikiGap, will be held by Lina Eidmark from Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and John Andersson representing Wikimedia Sverige. Lina and John will also clarify and highlight the connection between the Sustainable development goals and WikiGap.

Part two Two or more organizers of a WikiGap event, and perhaps one of the participants from the WikiGap Challenge, will share their experience from the campaign and eventually the Challenge.

Part three. We will collect the experiences from the whole assembly of how it was to organize WikiGap events and how they think they could have succeed even better. They will work with the following questions in groups:

Please identify and present the most important success factors and difficulties that you experienced during 2018 and 2019. Do you think it would be a good idea to expand the campaign in the future to include groups other than women and increase their visibility on Wikipedia? Please motivate your answer. Do you believe that the WikiGap Challenge was a good way to increase the interest and get an enduring commitment in the campaign? Do you have any other suggestion? The last part of the workshop will include a presentation made by the group members and a final summary about suggestions and experiences, led by Lina and John.

Session page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Diversity/Experience_makes_the_difference_in_improving_gender_equality_in_Wikipedia