[Gendergap] [Research] The encyclopedia must fail! - Notes on queering Wikipedia

2014-07-11 Thread Netha Hussain
Dear all, Here is a research authored by Noopur Raval (User: Noopur28) on Ada, a journal of gender, media and technology : http://adanewmedia.org/2014/07/issue5-raval/ Netha -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com

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

2014-07-11 Thread Valerie Aurora
Hi Emily, I appreciate your good intentions and your desire to point out the ways in which many different kinds people are harmed and oppressed. Just so you know, when you do it in the context of people talking about ways that women are specifically harmed and oppressed in the context of

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

2014-07-11 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.org wrote: That is, as a result of comments like these, we end up having a discussion about something other than women's participation in Wikimedia projects. When this happens frequently, people end up feeling discouraged

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

2014-07-11 Thread Leigh Honeywell
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Val, The discussion at that point was about Internet commenters. As you may know, that's not quite how Wikimedia projects work, and certainly the discussion wasn't referring to commenters on a Wikimedia project. Emily can't

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

2014-07-11 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Leigh Honeywell le...@hypatia.ca wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Val, The discussion at that point was about Internet commenters. As you may know, that's not quite how Wikimedia projects work, and certainly the