Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-08-01 Thread Jane Darnell
I totally agree, and no offense to the people who have contributed to help pages, but I find them very unhelpful and sometimes downright wrong. Sent from my iPad On Jul 31, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com I Still stand by hand holding...personal out weighs what we

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-30 Thread Pine W
Marie, Thanks very much for this overview of your early experience as an editor. Would you mind sending this email to the editor growth team so that they can look at your experience for ideas about what they can improve? Their email list is called Editor Engagement and you can find it on

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-30 Thread Amanda Menking
Thanks Pine! ~ A. On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.commailto:wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Marie, Thanks very much for this overview of your early experience as an editor. Would you mind sending this email to the editor growth team so that they can look at your experience

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-30 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 7/30/2014 5:51 AM, Marie Earley wrote: Things that I think might help: Help pages wise, I'm sure they'd love to see you at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Help I know I wasted a couple years learning the hard way because the Help pages didn't seem intuitive enough.

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-30 Thread Kerry Raymond
2014 10:24 AM To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participationof women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons On 7/30/2014 5:51 AM, Marie Earley wrote: Things that I think might help: Help pages wise, I'm sure

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
the participationof women within Wikimedia projects. *Subject:* Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons On 7/30/2014 5:51 AM, Marie Earley wrote: Things that I think might help: Help pages wise, I'm sure they'd love to see you at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Kerry, Sad as it is to be the bearer of dispiriting news... A proposal more or less similar to this was made by the Board in 2011 (some kind of image filtering on a user-selected basis) - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content The debate about whether (and/or

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Sarah
...@gmail.com; Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. Subject: Re: [Spam] Re: [Gendergap] Sexualized environment on Commons Hi Kerry, Sad as it is to be the bearer of dispiriting news... A proposal more or less similar

Re: [Gendergap] [Spam] Re: Sexualized environment on Commons

2014-07-25 Thread Pete Forsyth
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: The new hovercards (which I otherwise love) have created another problem, in that lead images show up when your cursor hovers over a wikilink. Good point. In general, it would be good to have a more thorough process for