Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

Hi all - As a further bit of clarification regarding the current arbcom case request (it had not been accepted yet:) 1) Eric Corbett made a series of statements that Kirill Lokshin, one of our best regarded former arbitrators, regarded as violating his topic bans w/r/t discussion of the

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

The Signpost has an article, "Women and Wikipedia, the world s watching" and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/Editorial and "In the media: Wikipedia's hostility to women" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-21/In_the_media On

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

the point about dying with a whimper is well taken; or as Andrew Lih said: become like wikinews, a failed wiki the librarian who said "cultural buzzsaw", also said, "would not touch wikipedia with a 10 foot pole." apparently, the write an article outside wiki to provide negative feedback to the

[Gendergap] Some comments on recent civility and diversity discussion trends

I'm glad to see the uptick in the number of high profile gender gap discussions in the past few months. I hope that this will give the theme some momentum that leads to meaningful improvements in the civility on Wikimedia and a variety of our community health statistics. There's a piece in the

Re: [Gendergap] Atlantic article..."How Wikipedia is Hostile to Women"

In case anyone missed it, there is now an Arbcom case about this article... or something - am not entirely clear what it's about but there are some very, erm, "interesting" arguments being made in the dozens of case statements. On 21 Oct 2015 21:01, "Carol Moore dc"

[Gendergap] Harassment video from India: "Actually your creep isn't even a legit creep"

In this soft commercial from Bollywood for a match-making app, actresses Shweta Basu Prasad and Mansi Multani face off in a competition to describe the creepiest guy currently stalking them on the internet: "Actually your creep isn't even a legit creep, For my shaadi he is someone my mom would