Frankly, given the hostility to the Gender Gap project, I have to wonder
about this Hashtag effort.
Lightbreather quoted some obnoxious guy statements a month ago out of
her own account and was roundly criticized. Forum shopping and
canvassing issues were raised while others applauded it. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_170#Fed_up_with_the_status_quo...
I personally wouldn't do it because the wrong Admin who was friends with
people you quoted (or people who don't like you) probably would get you
blocked for weeks or months at a time. So it could be a way to trap
editors whose twitter accounts are somehow linked to their user names.
I know at least one guy at an ANI got away with criticizing a woman
editor on her editing at a number of off wiki-sites. But that doesn't
mean any of us would get away with it.
And this also can be turned about the Gender Gap Project
"#GenderGapStupidity" or whatever.
So unless there was some community consensus on an appropriate way to do
this, I would tread carefully...
CM
On 9/9/2014 6:05 AM, Gender Gap wrote:
Hey, I've been following this list for a while. I'm pretty sick of the
constant sexism on Wikipedia, and depressed because it's not just a
few users, but seen in the opinions and suggestions of so many. I've
started a twitter account (https://twitter.com/SaidOnWP) to give some
examples of what I think the most egregious things said are. This will
probably upset some users, especially users that meant well, but many
things that are said that are "well-meaning" have some offensive
underlying ideas.
I want to show the mass of evidence that sexism exists on WP in a
venue where it doesn't have to be interrupted by users demanding
proof. I know that this is more confrontational than some users will
want, but I'm sick of the anti-interventionalist sentiment from
different quarters in WP, with the attitude "oh! well it's up to what
the community wants...!" This is a problem with the community and I
hope to shed some light on it.
I'm going to be posting things every day and have enough content
planned for about a month, repost, send me examples or follow my
twitter. I'm only posting content from this year, and include
analyses, discussions, commentary and incidents.
#saidonWP
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