Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Marie Earley
Hi Risker / Anne, In response to the points you raise: * A panel suggests a group of people who discuss and decide things, it wouldn't be that, it would be a pool of adjudicators. * The home page shows 130,858 active editors, if 15% of those are female then it means there must be 19,628 female

Re: [Gendergap] Adrienne Wadewitz featured in short piece about Gendergap on the English Wikipedia

2014-07-07 Thread Tom Morris
That’s really cool. (Just don’t read the comments. Awful misogyny contained therein. Is there any way we can get that crap removed?) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ - Original message - From: Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
Speaking personally, whenever I am asked what my gender is, I say do not want to answer; if that isn't an option, I have refused to join sites before. As often as not, that information is used to categorize and ghetto-ize people. I'm gobsmacked that you've found most people post their gender on

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Carol Moore dc
While I've barely had a chance to read through proposal and comments, I'd like to just ask re the below which applies generally right now: On 7/7/2014 9:35 AM, Risker wrote: I know what it's like to have my inbox flooded with requests for assistance in relation to dispute resolution - just

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
On 7 July 2014 09:51, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: While I've barely had a chance to read through proposal and comments, I'd like to just ask re the below which applies generally right now: On 7/7/2014 9:35 AM, Risker wrote: I know what it's like to have my inbox flooded

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Sydney Poore
Hi there, I'm flagging the major issues that need to be considered. 1) we can not promise anonymity for the people acting as adjudicators. Any attempt to have anonymous people hearing a case will attract attention from a group if obsessive people who out anyone who is anonymous. Plus at times

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm flagging the major issues that need to be considered. 1) we can not promise anonymity for the people acting as adjudicators. Any attempt to have anonymous people hearing a case will attract attention

Re: [Gendergap] Addressing incivility (was: men on lists)

2014-07-07 Thread Risker
On 7 July 2014 13:00, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: 2) the reasons that people enforcing the rules on Wikipedia ignore incivility, harassment, and trolling is because that approach is often the best way to stop attention seeking behavior. The idea to not feed