[Gendergap] How to proceed?

2015-01-16 Thread LB
So I made the WikiProject Women proposal at the IdeaLab: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women 10 days ago now, with some remarkable support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women#Idea_support_as_of_2010-01-13_20:47_UTC, IMO. I'd like to

[Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread LB
Based on a discussion at the WikiProject Women IdeaLab talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women#best_practice.3F, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lightbreather/Kaffeeklatsch area for women (cis, lesbian, transgender)

[Gendergap] Gender-Gap best practices?

2015-01-16 Thread Dirk Franke
Dear people interested in the Gender Gap, after a long long time since I last wrote on this list, let me re-introduce myself: I'm Dirk/southpark. I'm a long time Wikipedian/Wikimedian with some spare time in his hands and the intent to use it for something useful and to make Wikipedia a better

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 1/16/2015 2:20 PM, LB wrote: Based on a discussion at the WikiProject Women IdeaLab talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women#best_practice.3F, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lightbreather/Kaffeeklatsch area for

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Katherine Casey
*Also note many women consider cis to be an insult that eliminates womens experience as women, who've been identified as and identify as women from birth, and are happy and even proud to be women.* ...wha? On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: On

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Sarah Stierch
I'm not cis..and it was a term I only learned about a few years ago... but, here's the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender It means that someone identifies as the gender they were born with. So, if you're born with female parts and you identify as a woman and it's totally

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread JJ Marr
What will be discussed in this Kaffeeklatsch area? On Jan 16, 2015 4:56 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever else cis is, it's not a scientific term. It's a buzzword that sounds scientific because it derives from the Latin, but in fact it's a coined term that is not used in

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread LB
I hesitated to use the term, but it seemed to be shorthand for exactly what you just said, Sarah. At least that's how I meant it, and I didn't mean to suggest that it's scientific. Lightbreather On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not cis..and it

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Heather Walls
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever else cis is, it's not a scientific term. It's a buzzword that sounds scientific because it derives from the Latin, but in fact it's a coined term that is not used in science. What makes a term scientific other than

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread LB
Whatever we want to that doesn't break WP policy or the klatsch's rules. I envision it along the lines of the WikiProject Women proposal https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/WikiProject_Women#Project_idea at the IdeaLab. Lightbreather On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:06 PM, JJ Marr

Re: [Gendergap] Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-16 Thread Risker
On 16 January 2015 at 17:13, Heather Walls hwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever else cis is, it's not a scientific term. It's a buzzword that sounds scientific because it derives from the Latin, but in fact it's a coined