volpino/wikipedia-timeline — Issue #1: An Idea
Author: notconfusing
Created: 2012-03-02 20:03:40+00:00
State: open

I think this tool is Brilliant. I work as a Regional Ambassador for Wikipedia, and after having read "Free as in Sexist" (http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/community/free-as-in-sexist-intro.html) I'm convinced we can do more to combat Gender Biases on Wikipedia.
I had an idea to create some sort of plug-in, (either running in MediaWiki, on a Wikimedia Toolserver, or Firefox) to report what the gender distribution of a certain page was -- as you were surfing as a graphic in the corner. With just a bit of conversion I think we could use the preexisting code where most of the work is done, to create this. It is after all Women's History Month.

How would you suggest going about making this tool?
Thanks,
Max