Wikipedystka, in Polish, describes a female Wikipedian (as opposed
to the male wikipedysta). As of today, Polish female Wikipedians are
no longer called wikipedysta if they choose to publicly identify
their gender as female.
Here are a few examples:
It seems to me very kind, but not related to the ethymology nor the use of the
words (I have not information about Polish).
In English you have the male suffix -ian and the female suffix -ienne :
comedienne, equestrienne, tragedienne.
At the same time you have the suffix -ist for both gender
Hi Everyone -
TechCocktail just ran a post about Changing the Ratio of female editors in
Wikipedia: http://techcocktail.com/changing-the-ratio-wikipedia-2011-10
And it mentions the Facebook campaign I've started to change your profile
pic on Ada Lovelace Day (this Friday, Oct 7) and to edit or
This is a great idea, and I've accepted the invitation to join this on
Facebook. Although I'm going to be rebellious and instead of working on the
article about a woman in STEM, I'm going to continue to work on [[Maya
Angelou]].
I've been working on several of Dr. Angelou's articles for the past
From: patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Wikipedystka
It seems to me very kind, but not
On 5 October 2011 13:10, patricia morales
mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.comwrote:
*From:* patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com
*To:* Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:51 PM
*Subject:* Re:
I'm curious; which feminists are these? I've never encountered that line of
reasoning.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems we may be coming full circle, in that an increasing number of
feminist women are seeking to return to the sex-differentiated
Risker wrote:
I confess that this post made me smile. Back in the day when my feminist
streak was first being nurtured, the differentiation of men and women doing the
same job by the use of suffixes was a major thorn in the side of most
feminists. Over time, there was often a complete
at translatewiki there are some examples of gender in languages
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Gender#Gender_in_languages
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:
Risker wrote:
I confess that this post made me smile. Back in the day when my
Wouldn't the obvious thing in the Spanish Wikipedia be to differentiate between
usuario and usuaria? As in Página del usuario / Página de la usuaria?
Andreas
--- On Wed, 5/10/11, patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: patricia morales mariadelcarmenpatri...@yahoo.com
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Wouldn't the obvious thing in the Spanish Wikipedia be to differentiate
between usuario and usuaria?
Indeed, that's the current implementation, which is now deployed.
Here's an example female user's page on Spanish
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