Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-04 Thread Pharos
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with lots of advertising articles for tech companies.

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-04 Thread Sarah Stierch
Just a reminder, we have a conversation started here about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Feminism#Gender_neutrality_template I also brought up the use of some templates used for gender studies. If we can start contributing to the wiki about this, that'd be

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
...@frontiernet.net Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 1 October, 2011, 20:29   I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-01 Thread carolmooredc
There are other more powerful groups that would use the precedent to create a template that would censor a number of articles that already are heavily patrolled and censored by organized groups of editors (many of them surely paid, not that they'd ever admit it). Instead use the POV template

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-01 Thread Sarah Stierch
We also have a controversial template... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Controversial I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with lots of advertising articles for tech companies.

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-10-01 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
I love the idea of having articles of gender concern in a one stop shopping space. Going through the NPOV collection is long, painful and is filled with lots of advertising articles for tech companies. Blarg -Sarah I agree with a gender-specific tag as well. NPOV is (by design)

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
What do you think about creating a {{gendergap}} or {{GNPOV}} (gender-neutral point of view) template in en:WP? This could have a format similar to  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NPOV and could use an image like  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igualtat_de_sexes.svg The text could

Re: [Gendergap] Gender neutrality template

2011-09-30 Thread Pete Forsyth
Andreas, my preference would be to stick with the NPOV banner we have (which is pretty sufficient for all manner of non-neutrality issues), and instead encourage people who use it to actually open a discussion on the talk page when applying the template. It is all too common that someone will