Slide deck accompanying a talk made at Wikimania 2018.

1. Lessons from creating a
diversity toolkit
Chinmayi S K and Rohini Lakshané

2. Societal
Impediments
○ Patriarchy is deeply
entrenched. It reflects in
everything
○ Different social and cultural
classes
○ Caste system-based society
○ Persistently conflict-ridden
geographies
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3. Community
Knowledge
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○ Most of the people working
towards bridging the gender
gap don’t have formal training
in gender studies or
gender-based interventions
○ There is very little intersectional
designing and execution of
programs
○ Ignorance and lack of
participation of public
accountability processes

4. Harmful
Patterns
○ Denial of imbalances
○ Problematic interpretations
of “neutrality” and NPOV
(“If you are neutral in
situations of injustice, you
have chosen the side of the
oppressor.” -- Desmond
Tutu.)
○ Flawed systems of
governance
○ Toxic culture which
contravenes Wikimedia
principles.

5. Module 1
1. Why do we need to identify privilege?
2. Why is ignorance of (one’s own) privilege, or lack thereof, bad for the sum of all human
knowledge?
3. Identifying privilege across:
1. Class
2. Caste
3. Gender and sexuality
4. Disability
5. Ethnicity
6. Language
7. And their intersections with each other
8. How to identify intentional or unintentional exhibition of privilege
4. Evaluating privilege
1. Evaluating and checking one’s own privilege and that of one’s community
2. How to create an inclusive and safe environment for everyone based on the above

6. Module 2
Collaborating with or supporting underrepresented groups
1. Lived experiences (written by individuals from these groups)
2. Conscious development of empathy towards underrepresented groups
3. Reading list
Module 3
Using Wiki tools to identify content gaps
1. Why do we need to use various wiki-based tools?
1. To impart tangibility to the idea of the knowledge gap and to support assertions with verifiable
data
2. To quantify the lack of diversity among contributors and in the content
2. What tools do we use?
3. What are their limitations?
4. What do we empirically learn from what we find using the tools?
5. Among our findings, which ones may be considered conclusive?

7. Module 4
1. Creating safe spaces for events
1. How to support underrepresented groups beyond and after an event held for targeted
outreach
2. How to design a program to make this effort sustainable
3. Understanding effort vs. impact
4. Methodologies to measure impact
5. How to determine and draft the optimal code of conduct and friendly space policy for
an event
2. How to create an enabling environment for participants to access the Internet and other
resources they may require
3. Tips for novice editors participating in an event
4. Tips for organisers of events in which most of the participants are novice
5. Map of conflict resolution
Module 5: Facilitating an outreach event for underrepresented groups

8. ● Those who belong to the
demographic they write about
and possess lived experience
on the topic they write about
● Subject matter experts
● They have experience in the
open knowledge movement
Primary
Criteria for
Recruiting
Module Writers

9. ● They treat people with respect
● They display empathy
● Those people who have thus far
been less visible
● Women/ trans-people
Additional
Criteria for
Module Writers

10. https://tinyurl.
com/y97zzzev
Community
Toolkit for
Greater
Diversity

11. Enkosi!