Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:48, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I am not sure if it is just me, but reading this page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Netherlands ) I would almost think that this is a parody of something - I can't tell if it is the

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
Laura - Thanks for asking for more contributions. I was wondering what was going on, since the project has seemed a bit quiet lately! Glad to know it's catching steam again. I made some edits a few months ago to the US section. (See comments below) On 2/1/12 5:18 AM, Lodewijk wrote: Perhaps

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Béria Lima
Again, I would like to point that meta is a wiki and all of us have usernames there. So I would suggest all of you to *be bold *and correct what is not correct in your opinion. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Caroline Becker
Hi, this is a personnal mail (not on the gender-gap list). two of the most famous pop stars in the world, at least in the US.) is a really, really funny sentence :) Either they are famous in the world, ie not only in the US, or in the US so not in the world :) Again, this is funny, not a

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 2/1/12 10:45 AM, Caroline Becker wrote: Hi, this is a personnal mail (not on the gender-gap list). two of the most famous pop stars in the world, at least in the US.) is a really, really funny sentence :) Either they are famous in the world, ie not only in the US, or in the US so not in

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Risker
I suspect people have been hesitant to remove the information because it's not clear why it was added in the first place; on the whole, Wikimedians are content collectors rather than content removers, unless they are very comfortable that the information being removed is of no significant value or

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Béria Lima
I can't answer for her, but I believe she was only gathering data. Since she isn't Brazilian or Indian or Dutch, maybe might be difficult for her to know what is excatly relevant or not. I put in my list correct Brazil's and Portugal's entry, but I still didn't find time to do so, but please - If

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
2012/2/1 Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt I can't answer for her, but I believe she was only gathering data. Since she isn't Brazilian or Indian or Dutch, maybe might be difficult for her to know what is excatly relevant or not. The problem here is that you musn't try to fix a bias or

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Béria Lima
We are not trying to fix gender gap here (here means: WWCamp ) Emijrp. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
No. You just want to write a book with no rigor. 2012/2/1 Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt We are not trying to fix gender gap here (here means: WWCamp ) Emijrp. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a

Re: [Gendergap] [cultural-partners] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement (x-posted, apologies)

2012-02-01 Thread Béria Lima
Exact, just like Wikipedia :D _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomenCamp: National perspectives on women and the movement

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 2/1/12 3:35 PM, emijrp wrote: No. You just want to write a book with no rigor. Not sure why I didn't think of this the first time, but, like Beria and I both said - let's be bold and while we hope for input from Laura, I'm sure people would be welcome to improve on their pages, like I hope

[Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
Hi all; Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio between Wikipedias. Suggestions and links to tools are welcome. Regards, emijrp [1]

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio between Wikipedias. Suggestions and links to tools

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). Sarah ___ Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. Imagine if every Wikimedia contributor on this list, took a few hours and invited a friend,

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread emijrp
2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com On 2/1/12 5:39 PM, Sarah wrote: That's very interesting, thank you (and somewhat depressing). Sarah ___ Yeah, it just shows that we need to take action. We need to take action if a low number

Re: [Gendergap] WikiProject Women's sport

2012-02-01 Thread Gillian White
If anyone wants to follow up the development of these ideas, a report is published on Outreach here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/NEXT. Whiteghost.ink On 17 January 2012 06:58, Gillian White whiteghost@gmail.com wrote: No, I don't mind. I am not on the Cultural Partnerships list but

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio between Wikipedias. Suggestions and links to tools

Re: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-01 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:59 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; Is there any up-to-date statistical tools monitoring gender gap? I have started this basic one[1], and I'm thinking about an analysis of male-female biographies ratio between Wikipedias. Suggestions and links to tools

Re: [Gendergap] outreach and trianing resources...was... On Women's History Month

2012-02-01 Thread Carol Moore DC
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Karen Sue Rolph karenro...@hotmail.com mailto:karenro...@hotmail.com wrote: I would make a go of this in the San Francisco Bay Area if we could get some traction going. I'll check in with a couple groups I know of, and see where they stand. Do we

[Gendergap] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-01 Thread Andreas K.
A Wikimedian has just started a Facebook page Stop pornography on Wikipedia http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-pornography-on-Wikipedia/307245972661745 following an earlier post by her to [[User talk:Jimbo Wales]] in Wikipedia:

Re: [Gendergap] Facebook Group re pornography on Wikipedia

2012-02-01 Thread Caroline Becker
Yeah, and yesterday yet another intellectual said that Wikipedia cannot be trust because it is written by everyone, so Jimmy mentioned that only scholars will edit Wikipedia in the futur ? Caroline 2012/2/2 Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com A Wikimedian has just started a Facebook page Stop