Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania

2012-07-05 Thread Courtney Thurston
Sort of kind of maybe looking forward to it. Courtney On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.orgwrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Are you a woman attending Wikimania? Join us for the

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania

2012-07-05 Thread Karen Sue Rolph
Dear colleagues, I hope someone with survey design experience will be at this event and collect data on how many mothers manage to attend this event. We need to know whether women have adult or young children, and whether they are single parents, their ethnicity, and professional training.

Re: [Gendergap] WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania

2012-07-05 Thread Pete Forsyth
Good question. I wonder if this sort of survey has been done more generally for conferences? I would imagine all the factors mentioned here would apply to conference attendance generally, not specific to Wikimania. Which might speak to how effective we could reasonably expect conferences to be

Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-05 Thread Gillian White
The GenderGap list is about the gender gap - the gap in representation, involvement, participation, and acceptance of women on Wikipedia. We are concerned about it because of its impact on the encyclopaedia and on some people working in good faith on it. The sexual orientation and indeed, the sex

Re: [Gendergap] LGBT mailing list

2012-07-05 Thread John Vandenberg
On Jul 6, 2012 10:56 AM, Gillian White whiteghost@gmail.com wrote: ... I think we should ignore sexual orientation on THIS one as it is irrelevant for addressing the the lack of female participation in Wikmedia projects. I agree, mostly, but. . my understanding is that the surveys