[Gendergap] Porn stars vs. scientists

2011-11-22 Thread Sarah Stierch
A blog post by a scientist (posted via Wikipedian in Residence Daniel Mietchen on his own blog) about how porno outweighs quality scientist content on Wikipedia: http://wir.okfn.org/2011/11/18/why-are-pornstars-more-notable-than-scientists-on-wikipedia/ -Sara -- http://www.glamwiki.org Sarah

[Gendergap] Occupy Gender Gap

2011-11-22 Thread Sarah Stierch
Article from The Atlantic about the gender gap in the Occupy movement. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/the-occupy-movements-woman-problem/248831/#.TswgjrqJ7Rk.twitter What is Occupy's solution to its gender disparity problem? Occupy LA has a code of conduct and a zero

Re: [Gendergap] Occupy Gender Gap

2011-11-22 Thread Carol Moore
On 11/22/2011 6:22 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: Article from The Atlantic about the gender gap in the Occupy movement. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/the-occupy-movements-woman-problem/248831/#.TswgjrqJ7Rk.twitter What is Occupy's solution to its gender disparity problem?

Re: [Gendergap] Occupy Gender Gap

2011-11-22 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Carol Moore carolmoor...@verizon.netwrote: The sexism in the antiglobalization and non-pacifist and non-womens antiwar groups (and even some of the former) was pretty bad in the first decade. Not just tolerance of sexist remarks and discomfort with

[Gendergap] Written like a personal reflection or essay vs. Encyclopedic style?

2011-11-22 Thread Ladies Making Comics
Maybe someone can help me understand where I'm going astray here. I wrote an article about one of my favorite comic book artists of the 1940s, a woman named Lily Renée. I first posted it to the Women in Comics wikia I run

Re: [Gendergap] Written like a personal reflection or essay vs.Encyclopedic style?

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
Do you think whoever flagged it really meant it just needs to be cited better, or is there something I'm not seeing? Thanks, Alexa I think they used the wrong template ... {{story}} would be more appropriate

Re: [Gendergap] Written like a personal reflection or essay vs. Encyclopedic style?

2011-11-22 Thread Nathan
I'd say, if anything, it's mostly the Early life section. The Wikipedia 'house style', if you can call it that, is a fairly dry just-the-facts-ma'am method of relating events. Mrs. Kealy, however, seemed to think that by bringing her over, they were getting an unpaid servant is an example of a

Re: [Gendergap] Occupy Gender Gap

2011-11-22 Thread kgorman
It's quite hard to make meaningful generalizations about Occupy - even ignoring the initial diversity, the different circumstances of each occupation (especially the local political reaction to it) has made for quite different groups. Most of my experience is with bay area occupy groups - occupy

Re: [Gendergap] Occupy Gender Gap

2011-11-22 Thread Carol Moore
Some more relevant articles. And there are enough WP:RS mentions to be in the Wikipedia article(s), which I myself haven't even thought about looking at yet. http://thefeministwire.com/2011/11/occupy-rape-culture/