Re: [Gendergap] Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines

2013-01-17 Thread Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
I like what I see! Definitely should keep an eye on how this works for them. Thanks for sharing! Dimi 2013/1/17 Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com Very exciting! Thanks for sharing Tom. -Sarah On 1/16/13 11:59 AM, Tom Morris wrote: Thought that some people on this list might find

[Gendergap] Ask a WIkiWoman happening now

2013-01-17 Thread Sarah Stierch
Hi everyone, Just a reminder that #askawikiwoman is taking place on Twitter right now. I know many of us are wiki-know-it-all's, but, this is an experimental event that we're trying out as part of my fellowship :) It'd be great to have you ask Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz (User:Wadewitz) anything

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.netwrote: It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into Wikipedia - a female did it. Now, now, Carol. The record shows that *I* created the circle jerk article, and I am not a female.

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread ChaoticFluffy
It's two very different issues to argue about a) whether dirty word DYKs drive off women (I'm on record on Jimbo's talk as thinking that's silly), and b) whether dirty word DYKs are puerile and not as good a type of joke as we should be doing, if we want to do jokes (which appears to be basically

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread Carol Moore DC
On 1/17/2013 1:24 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into Wikipedia - a female did it. Now, now, Carol. The record shows

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread Sarah Stierch
On 1/17/13 6:17 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: On 1/17/2013 1:24 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Carol Moore DC carolmoor...@verizon.net mailto:carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: It took forever to get the actual article [[Circle jerk]] into Wikipedia - a female did

Re: [Gendergap] Do the April Fool's Day jokes on English Wikipedia's front page deter women editors?

2013-01-17 Thread Risker
On 17 January 2013 22:33, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: There was actually a good suggestion for one on the TFA talk pagefor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Cod_of_Massachusetts It's already at GA, needs significant polishing and filling in of gaps, but is easily do-able for