Re: [Gendergap] A cautionary tale

2014-06-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Hm, we've discussed that author before... oh well. What I found that could be of use for us: «giving us back our ability to make boundaries [...] shouldn't let strangers message strangers, and all sites and apps should allow users to block others. [...] A block should be across all site

Re: [Gendergap] men on lists

2014-06-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ok, I shouldn't have said two women but two members, the gender was unimportant. Risker, 23/06/2014 18:02: Derric, if I may suggest - the best way to get a mailing list back on topic is to write to the topic, Sure, and of course the topic is throwing judgements on who missed the point:

Re: [Gendergap] Wikimania London 2014 - Request for interviews for Women Wikipedia IEG

2014-06-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Amanda Menking, 04/06/2014 20:54: My primary goal is to interview en.wikipedia editors who self-identify as women, but I’d also love to talk to editors who edit other languages and who do not self-identify as women I assume that and who meant or who? :) It would make little sense to exclude

[Gendergap] WMF plans for an executable gender gap strategy

2014-04-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FYI: «Increase support to challenging the gender gap to at least 1.5 percent of total grants spending, and host at least two diversity events in order to build out an executable gender gap strategy (baseline: 2013-14 YTD grants to gender gap issues ~1 percent; current year’s target: 1

[Gendergap] Fwd: Women and Wikipedia grant request

2014-04-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Messaggio originale Oggetto:[Wiki-research-l] Notification of IEG proposal and invitation to join the discussion Data: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:34:52 + Mittente: Amanda Menking Hi, I’ve submitted a Wikimedia IEG proposal and would like to invite the community

Re: [Gendergap] Casual sexism on en.wp

2013-08-22 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nathan, 18/07/2013 17:31: It's interesting to note that the response to Flutternutter's criticism has been generally negative, with the exception of Riskers comments. Several other female editors have supported Drmies, or at least not reacted well to the notion that his birthday note was sexist.

Re: [Gendergap] Crazy big list of red links about women subjects

2013-05-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ole Palnatoke Andersen, 28/05/2013 23:40: Wow. I copied the list to Danish Wikipedia (but didn't save - only preview), and *one* link turned blue there: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilde_Bajer it.wiki has several but usually existing elsewhere too... except

Re: [Gendergap] can the Commons images thread move?

2013-05-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sarah, 14/05/2013 08:46: Hi Sumana and Pete, I would object to closing any thread down. If people don't want to read the thread, that's fine, but if others are discussing it, please allow that. You can as well continue with private email. A posting rate limit has also proved successful on

Re: [Gendergap] Topless image retention -don't give up

2013-05-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ryan Kaldari, 08/05/2013 07:09: On 5/7/13 9:57 AM, Russavia wrote: Frankly, I don't know why this is a feminist issue; rather than an issue of common sense. Agreed. I often find it is counter-productive to frame these sort of debates in terms of feminism/sexism/etc. [...] Sure. I'm not

Re: [Gendergap] A Spanish book from 1845...

2012-01-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 07/01/2012 13:31: Yes, I will contact Spanish wikisource. Regards. In the meanwhile I've placed it on archive.org, Commons and es.source: https://es.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Contribucionesdir=prevoffset=20110526211622limit=3target=Nemo+bis Nemo

Re: [Gendergap] What are the Poles, Slovenes, Russians and Portuguese doing right in regards to the gender gap?

2011-12-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Erik Moeller, 29/12/2011 03:35: [*] For even more technical detail: The gender setting in the user preferences, and taking gender into account in the localization, pre-dates the gender localization of the User: namespace. The User: namespace localization by gender was just a particularly

Re: [Gendergap] Awesomeness: The amount of female volunteer leadership in the Wikimedia Movement

2011-12-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Laura Hale, 21/12/2011 21:55: At the moment, this is to both inform the community the state of female participation on a leadership level, the state of women's participation on WMF projects (the 9% number is meaningless unless properly contextualised) and the state of women's related content

Re: [Gendergap] Awesomeness: The amount of female volunteer leadership in the Wikimedia Movement

2011-12-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Risker, 24/12/2011 17:44: I have to wonder why this metric isn't being reviewed from a project perspective rather than a nationalistic one. The fact I come from Canada is far less important than the fact that I am active on projects X, Y and Z - the vast majority of active Wiki?edians display

Re: [Gendergap] Awesomeness: The amount of female volunteer leadership in the Wikimedia Movement

2011-12-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Laura Hale, 20/12/2011 22:02: If you have the time and knowledge, it would be fantastic if you could help fill in the details about your own county: What are historical membership totals in your home chapter? What has the historical female presence on your chapter's board been? What do you

Re: [Gendergap] Please delete gendergaps Googleable links about me --

2011-11-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Migdia Chinea, 05/11/2011 06:01: I'm very disturbed that my comments are now googleable. And I guess so is this one I'm writing right now. There's no context and it's just ery disturbing. My short has been seen in 25 film festivals around the world and now it appears that any comment I make