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Gender Gap and participation insights from Hackathon 2025
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At Hackathon 2025, we're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse tech community. This interview aims to better understand participant experiences across different gender identities, focusing on barriers to entry, participation roles, and perceptions of inclusion within the hackathon space.

We invite all participants to share their insights on:

  • When and how they began their tech journey
  • Advice they’d give for newcomers to get started
  • Ways non-developers can meaningfully contribute
  • Safe, beginner-friendly areas for students to explore
  • Perspectives on gender representation in tech spaces
  • Do we need to focus on actions that could help close gender gaps in participation
  • If yes, what are the possible actions you can think of

Your responses will help shape more equitable hackathon environments in the future. The interview takes only a few minutes to complete. Thank you for helping us build a better, more inclusive community.

Event Timeline

ManavpreetKaur renamed this task from Gender Gap and participation survey at Hackathon 2025 to Gender Gap and participation insights at Hackathon 2025.May 4 2025, 11:28 AM
ManavpreetKaur renamed this task from Gender Gap and participation insights at Hackathon 2025 to Gender Gap and participation insights from Hackathon 2025.

Status: Emails sent to interested wikimedians for further discussion.

@ManavpreetKaur: Thanks for participating in the Hackathon! We hope you had a great time.

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ManavpreetKaur changed the task status from Open to In Progress.May 28 2025, 4:03 AM

@ManavpreetKaur: This isn't about implementing proper gender support into software code... Did the session/interviews (?) described in this task take place?

This isn't about software/code. The interviews are in progress.

This isn't about software/code. The interviews are in progress.

Ah. Which organization / team will use the interview results?

I intend to publish this outcome after review by fellow researchers

Isaac subscribed.

Removing Research tag -- that's for work that the Wikimedia Foundation Research team is contributing to and while this seems like a great project, we're not participating at this time. Thanks and good luck!

Closing as Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025 took place more than four months ago. If this task should still remain open, then please do add an active (non-archived) project tag to this task. Thanks.

ManavpreetKaur reopened this task as In Progress.EditedAug 18 2025, 10:47 AM
ManavpreetKaur triaged this task as Medium priority.

This is ongoing work. Removed Hackathon tag

@ManavpreetKaur Then please assign an active project tag. Thanks.

The work is ongoing, will move updates to Meta.