Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap humor

2011-09-14 Thread Chris Keating
O.M.G. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: :)) A. --- On *Wed, 14/9/11, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org* wrote: From: Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap humor To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Date:

[Gendergap] Sexual Harassment in Online Communications: Effects of Gender and Discourse Medium

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
Interesting article that supports the idea that women and men perceive content differently. The research found that in terms of gender differences, women rated online pictures and jokes as significantly more harassing than men. http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/109493102753685863 We

[Gendergap] An example of clothed model in medical document

2011-09-14 Thread Arnaud HERVE
The last few days we talked about appropriate nudity in medical images. I have an example of appropriate clothing now. I think applying such rules as decency, respect, etc. are not totally sufficient. I think that the main principle should to avoid erotic content in order to focus on the

[Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Fred Bauder
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikifashionaction=editredlink=1 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-14 Thread Arnaud HERVE
On 14/09/2011 16:56, Sarah wrote: So the problem with the basic consent template as written -- I personally created this media. All identifiable persons shown specifically consented to this photograph or video -- is that it implies to the unsuspecting that consent has been given to take the

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:25, Arnaud HERVE arnaudhe...@x-mail.net wrote: On 14/09/2011 16:56, Sarah wrote: So the problem with the basic consent template as written -- I personally created this media. All identifiable persons shown specifically consented to this photograph or video -- is that

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html *''If you look at Wikipedia, a lot of the [fashion] designer or brand pages do not have a lot of information

[Gendergap] Other women's wiki's

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah Stierch
These are two others that I have stumbled across. I think it's really interesting to look at these wiki's and see what makes them good/bad, attractive/not, etc. I think there can always be something to learned..I've looked at these extensively, and even made accounts on them to explore the

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I do like this though (scroll down to badges), not the portraits..but the round badges. I'd love to see something like this developed for Wikipedia. I'd have them on my tumblr, etc.

Re: [Gendergap] Other women's wiki's

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
I'm creating account on these two wikis to better understand ways that these wikis function since they have more women, and were created more recently than WMF projects. Sydney Poore User:FloNight On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: These are two

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Sue Gardner
On 14 September 2011 10:03, Michael J. Lowrey orangem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I do like this though (scroll down to badges), not the portraits..but the round badges. I'd love to see something like this developed for

Re: [Gendergap] Wikifashion

2011-09-14 Thread Brandon Harris
On 9/14/11 8:41 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote: I really like the layout and such of the website I am on record in a number of places expressing my love for their skin design. I don't necessarily like the color scheme but the skin layout is top-notch.

Re: [Gendergap] Consent for photographs on Commons

2011-09-14 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 9/13/11 8:03 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: I think this is really great, thank you Kaldari for taking the time to create this. The n00b in me asks : 1) Is this trackable? That is, a hidden category or anything?

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 8, Issue 40

2011-09-14 Thread Jutta von Dincklage
Message: 5 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:34:21 +1000 From: Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com Subject: [Gendergap] Wikipedia: Biography of Living People guide (focusing on sport) To: memb...@wikimedia.org.au, Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects

Re: [Gendergap] Hairdresser, hairstylist...barber?

2011-09-14 Thread Ole Palnatoke Andersen
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I searched for hairdresser and was directed to barber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairdresser Kind of interesting, that it directs to barber and then discusses male barbers and men's haircutting culture. Surely

[Gendergap] Dubious talk page discussions (was:Re: An example of clothed model in medical document)

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
I don't have very good examples in mind, but maybe user Valorum27 fits the description here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sleeveless_shirt#Is_this_necessary.3F He is alone in this example but if there were more, it would bring back sexual focus. A better example is this, which

Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedia: Biography of Living People guide (focusing on sport)

2011-09-14 Thread Philippe Beaudette
That's a great start! One thing I'd do... our acronym soup can be enormously confusing. I have a tendency to write enwp.org/WP:BLP , for instance, but an outsider might need to see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_Living_Persons - it's easier for the mind to parse.