[Gendergap] Calling all women in tech - Scholarships for UK based attendees of AdaCamp Berlin 2014

2014-07-25 Thread Daria Cybulska
Hi All, Please have a look and spread widely - really hope to see some of you at the event. The event is worth attending; I'm raising it particularly as there are scholarships for UK attendees. * AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and

Re: [Gendergap] Calling all women in tech - Scholarships for UK based attendees of AdaCamp Berlin 2014

2014-07-25 Thread Valerie Aurora
Just want to add, this conference is for women in open tech AND culture - in the past, about 40% of attendees do not have jobs in IT. Applications for AdaCamp Berlin are currently running about 30% Wikimedians and we are hoping for 50% Wikimedians across AdaCamp Berlin and AdaCamp Bangalore. In

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Kerry, Sad as it is to be the bearer of dispiriting news... A proposal more or less similar to this was made by the Board in 2011 (some kind of image filtering on a user-selected basis) - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content The debate about whether (and/or

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Sarah
The new hovercards (which I otherwise love) have created another problem, in that lead images show up when your cursor hovers over a wikilink. You would have to be reading an article where potentially offensive images are in linked pages, so this won't be a problem across the board. But it's easy

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Pete Forsyth
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: The new hovercards (which I otherwise love) have created another problem, in that lead images show up when your cursor hovers over a wikilink. Good point. In general, it would be good to have a more thorough process for