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

2015-02-04 Thread Bohdan Melnychuk
Is there an area for men only as well? --Base On 16.01.2015 21:20, 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

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

2015-02-04 Thread Leigh Honeywell
This was not a helpful or informative comment. I have unsubscribed Bohdan from the list. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote: Is there an area for men only as well? --Base On 16.01.2015 21:20, LB wrote: Based on a discussion at the WikiProject Women

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

2015-01-17 Thread Risker
On 17 January 2015 at 14:06, Gordon Joly gordon.j...@pobox.com wrote: We would never even consider calling people who have two feet cispedal or people who have blood pressure in the normal range cistensive. Well, yes

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

2015-01-17 Thread Gordon Joly
We would never even consider calling people who have two feet cispedal or people who have blood pressure in the normal range cistensive. Well, yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism In organic chemistry, cis/trans isomerism (also known as geometric

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

2015-01-17 Thread LB
It's tempting, but I'm not ready to make that leap yet for my purpose. I really want it for women only, which isn't quite the same as not men. I'm leaning toward Anne's those who self-identify as women. It was my first instinct, and that's usually the way to go. Lightbreather On Fri, Jan 16,

[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)

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