Re: [Gendergap] GenderGap admin update

Please don't ping Kevin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-08-04/Obituary Fae is right to point out that we should replace him at the least. On 27 April 2017 at 20:15, Neotarf wrote: > I believe the second one has been active recently, maybe

Re: [Gendergap] "A Call to Men UK " manhood workshops

*Re "** young men from 11-19", which if you think about it, is pretty much the demographic of Wikimedia's admins and functionaries."* That's an old joke, but nowadays a joke that looks a tad out of touch. Yes a significant proportion of people were that age when they became admins in 2004-2008.

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

Christophe, Carol and Fae's notes have set me thinking as to what we could do with these funds, One of the areas that I understand has been a problem is email harassment, particularly of women and I believe particularly from throwaway accounts. I was wondering what people on this list would

Re: [Gendergap] Good news from EN Wikipedia

then > nobody does. :-) > > Fae > > On 11 January 2017 at 06:55, WereSpielChequers > <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ealdgyth has just set a new record for an unopposed request for > adminship. > > She had 250 supports and no opposes, breaking

[Gendergap] Good news from EN Wikipedia

Ealdgyth has just set a new record for an unopposed request for adminship. She had 250 supports and no opposes, breaking Sarah Stierch's 2012 record of 217 0 by 33 supports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Times_that_200_Wikipedians_supported_an_RFX Jonathan

Re: [Gendergap] Study: men who receive harassment training “significantly less likely” to recognize harassment

randomly chosen. WereSpielChequers > On 3 May 2016, at 15:53, Neotarf <neot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "A study in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science found men who > participated in a university staff sexual harassment programme were > “significantly less likely”

Re: [Gendergap] Signpost op-ed (NSFW)

Leaving aside the language issue, there's an important issue in this article re the Gendergap. I had been under the impression that Wikipedia's ratio of bios by gender was skewed, but overall no more skewed than the secondary sources. That we have many gaps, male and female but, and this could be

Re: [Gendergap] Signpost op-ed (NSFW)

especially if it looks to them that you are defending a fellow insider. Regards Jonathan / WereSpielChequers > On 21 Feb 2016, at 21:54, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > The depressing thing to me is that the English Wikipedia community takes all >

Re: [Gendergap] Latest WMF brouhahas relevant to gender gap??

Two male trustees are leaving as their terms have expired. One male trustee has been controversially ousted. Two trustees have been appointed, one female, the other male. There is a petition to reject the new male trustee which may or may not succeed, and if it succeeds who can predict the gender

Re: [Gendergap] Three hours left to register your account for Arbcom elections

Mainspace is where we keep the articles as opposed to policies, drafts, user space files and an amazing amount of other stuff. Another easy and uncontentious way to make a few edits is a little image adding exercise I wrote. Or

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

Kevin, 2014 was the nadir for some raw editing numbers on English Wikipedia, on at least one count numbers have been rising since then . The problem in estimating the electorate is that our best metrics are unrelated

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

ich details various journalists got wrong, we > should focus on what they got right and how we can fix it. > > Sarah > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:45 AM, WereSpielChequers < > werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Francesca, >> >> It seems a shame t

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

I haven't followed ARBCOM closely enough this year to be quite as scathing as Risker, but the what little I have seen is very disappointing. I haven't been an arb, but I have done jury service, and I'm a fan of the system. But it relies on conscription to draft people in for a task that they are

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

Thanks Francesca, It seems a shame that an Arbcom case in which one person was blocked for offwiki harassment and another would have been if the evidence had been conclusive has been reported as if they'd decided instead to spare the harasser for privacy reasons. As Thryduulf put it "there is no

Re: [Gendergap] Linux's culture problem

I'm not a member of the Lynux community, though I'm a very grateful user of their software. But I don't read that blogpost as saying that "She didn't try to change Linus Torvalds. She left". I read her words, and especially* "I’m posting this because I feel sad every time someone thanks me for

Re: [Gendergap] Help us fill the Ally Skills Workshop at Wikimania!

Hi Carole, But if you ask people to lurk out of camera shot and not ask questions unless they are willing to have them taped aren't you making them second class participants at that event? Better in my view to create an edited taped version, and if someone isn't prepared to be in the final cut

[Gendergap] Calling for women in tech. New BBC3 Series - Final Call for Applicants!

Greetings, Anyone on this list interested in taking part in a BBC program on women in tech? Regards Jonathan Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Beck robert.b...@nutshelltv.co.uk Subject: New BBC3 Series - Final Call for Applicants! Hi, My name is Rob and I am a Researcher on a

Re: [Gendergap] Motivating women to run for board seats

One problem with Oppose in that electoral system is that unlike say RFA you don't know why individual people are opposing, though you can make deductions from patterns. For example, as one might have expected the tension between the WMF and the community over the last two years resulted in a

Re: [Gendergap] Outcome of IdeaLab/Inspire campaign

An alternative tack is to encourage people to edit sections rather than click the edit button at the top of the page. Aside from often avoiding templates and infoboxes, a habit of editing by section will greatly reduce your risk of edit conflicts. As for editing Wikipedia improving a

Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects

/2015 03:38 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: 2015-04-12 21:18 GMT+02:00 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com mailto:werespielchequ...@gmail.com: Firstly looking at gender ratios of deleted and undeleted bios to see if there is an overall gender skew. I share here this page

Re: [Gendergap] Article: Wikipedia trolls now vs. women architects

Inclusionism and deletionism is a longstanding battleground where the community is awfully inconsistent. I decline a fair few incorrect speedy deletion tags, some of them so egregious it is very hard to assume good faith and not treat the tagger as a vandal. I don't know whether there is a

Re: [Gendergap] Random musings about a bot

You also need to avoid making such a change in uRLs and quotations, or at least quotations that were originally in English. Regards Jonathan On 25 Feb 2015, at 03:29, Travis Briggs audiod...@gmail.com wrote: I have contributed to py wikipedia bot, which could easily enable

Re: [Gendergap] Thank someone today.

Much of my editing on wikipedia is minor typo fixes, the sort that a normal spellchecker won't pick up. I secularised lots of sports teams from having mangers to managers and also dealt with the problem of rock stars preforming songs in sports stadiums. I used to be able to do hundreds of such

Re: [Gendergap] press coverage of Gamergate arbcom case

Hi Marie, Surely this would cover more than just examples where both parties were in the UK? For example if the victim was anywhere in the world but the offender was in the UK, wouldn't the UK law apply? Regards Jonathan Cardy On 30 Jan 2015, at 16:46, Marie Earley eir...@hotmail.com

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries. In London?

the right chromosomes to play. Tim Davenport Corvallis, OR Corvallis, OR USA = Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:43:52 + From: WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within

Re: [Gendergap] Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women

for that. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 2 Feb 2015, at 22:12, Rob gamali...@gmail.com wrote: MIT Technology Review: Despite well-publicized efforts to promote equality, Wikipedia articles are deeply biased against women, say computer scientists who have analysed six different

Re: [Gendergap] Need for women as Wikipedians in Residence

articles in advance of an anniversary. However I added the article on Edna Purviance as a relevant one to improve in the editathon, I expect there will be other similar opportunities. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 30 Jan 2015, at 19:54, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: One

Re: [Gendergap] Diversity training for functionaries. In London?

It would be very easy for us to host a two hour session in London on a weekday evening at the UK offices. I am fairly sure we could get a bunch of admins and others to attend, aside from some of the London regulars who have agreed in principle, a geonotice would likely attract more. I have no

Re: [Gendergap] Iraqi human rights lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi tortured and executed because Facebook; where is her Wikipedia article?

That was a death of article. I suspect there are articles that cover ISIS killing people, if they had only killed one person it might well be titled death of. Since they seem keen to torture enslave or murder anyone who doesn't share their brand of Sunni Islam it would stretch our notability