Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-07-02 Thread Emily Monroe
Oh. Oh my. You mean that there's a name besides Emily that people share? ;-) Back to your normal programming. From, Emily On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com wrote: Gosh, I did make a

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

2014-07-02 Thread Valerie Aurora
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.org wrote: Hi Derric, This list is not for the purpose of improving people's communication skills. If you would like to help women in Wikimedia

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-07-02 Thread Carol Moore dc
Re: the below, yes, i was blocked in a situation I thought was biased compared to other blocks I've seen. (I didn't mention that originally it was a six month block but the community of mostly guys thought that was grossly unfair and it was reduced to two weeks.) However, in general wikipedia

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-07-02 Thread Marie Earley
I placed an ANI about the Voice for Men article and the subsequent comments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Off-wiki_comments.2C_possible_multiple_policy_infringements The result being: We cannot take action for off-Wiki discussions like this. However, an announcement on WP:AN

Re: [Gendergap] Moderation and the future of Gendergap-L

2014-07-02 Thread Kevin Gorman
Unfortunately sites like AVfM and its ilk are something that we really do have limited ability to directly address on Wikipedia, even though it's something that has a direct effect on the retention of our editors. I've made AVfM and similar sites way more times than I would like to remember, as

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

2014-07-02 Thread Pine W
Valerie's interesting comments are in line with one of the reasons I've stayed off of this list in the past. I am ok with women having a space without men around, just like I feel men should be able to have a space without women around. I'm familiar with a workplace where at least one employee