Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-03 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Several women, including on WikiProject Feminism on the English Wikipedia, have recently expressed concern about the number of photographs of women's body parts that Wikimedia hosts, particularly regarding the issue of

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs of women

2011-09-03 Thread Fred Bauder
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:22, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: As Sarah Stierch points out, our images of sexuality and reproduction are crap, broadly speaking, and our paperwork/processes are self-evidently not good for attracting high quality photographs.  What processes should we

Re: [Gendergap] Increasing Visibility of Diversity and Women on Wikipedia

2011-09-03 Thread Sarah Stierch
Here is the deletion log, for reference, regarding African American women it looks like the desire was to have it used as a main category and then have sub categories added to it, and I think that makes sense, but I also understand some aren't categorized.

[Gendergap] Childless couples

2011-09-03 Thread Sarah Stierch
From WP:Feminism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Outrageous_male_bias Man our talk page has been blowing up lately The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations So glad we have a

Re: [Gendergap] Childless couples

2011-09-03 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
The article for [[childfree]] is just as weird, including this odd photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Motivations So glad we have a photo of a guy doing research to illustrate this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research The same user, Tesseract2, added

Re: [Gendergap] Question for the Foundation about photographs ofwomen

2011-09-03 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
(I am particularly concerned with bulk uploads from other services that don't have such policies in place, such as Flickr, because provenance and consent becomes very difficult to trace in that case.) climb on favorite hobby horse at first This is, of course, another side effect of our overly