[Gendergap] Girl Geeks and a Wikipedia Editing Day
Heya, I've put up a geonotice but just in case anyone has them disabled (I wouldn't blame you), we're having an editing day with the Manchester Girl Geeks on the 12th. Any presence, female or otherwise, would be appreciated. Invitations went out today to their 400 strong mailing list and we're hoping to have 40 women attend. I think partnership with organisations like the Girl Geeks really helps to bridge the gender gap. If we get 40 new editors out of this day that's 40 women who weren't there before. So I want us to have an enthusiastic show on hand! Also, I know I put out the call before and I have my responses saved but I am meeting with the head of the global network today to talk about where we can feasibly hold talks. The invitations should go out very soon so if anyone else is willing to volunteer to organise an editing day or give a talk on Wikipedia to these great women that would make my week. Lots of wiki-love, Fiona/Panyd ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
[Gendergap] Women celebrating...women!
This month Lori Phillips, Wikipedian in Residence at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis has a two page spread in Indianapolis Woman, Indiana's biggest magazine dedicated to women. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/03afc96c#/03afc96c/16 Lori isn't on this list, so I cc'd her, but, I just wanted to share the article with everyone here - thumbs up to Lori and and thumbs up to Indianapolis Woman for taking notice of Lori's great work in the GLAM WIKI movement. No mention of gender concerns or anything like that, but, that doesn't matter - female Wikipedians getting shown in a positive light about their work is always needed. Congratulations Lori! -Sarah -- http://www.glamwiki.org Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural artistic research advising.* -- http://www.sarahstierch.com/ ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
Re: [Gendergap] the state of civility on en.wiki
The particular incident that prompted this thread has spawned a request for an arbitration case, which apparently is likely to be accepted. I think this would be a really good opportunity for the committee to make a difference with respect to enabling people with a long history of rude interactions. If nothing else, discussions on this list have demonstrated that the often hostile editing atmosphere is a huge, huge deterrent for many editors and especially for women. Right now, only the most extreme behavior from non-vested users is sanctioned because of the many precedents exempting productive users from strict scrutiny. It may be helpful for people who post here to post to the case request page, and express to the arbitration committee that the value of the editors being driven away far exceeds the value of the editors repeatedly given a pass. The selective enforcement of interaction standards, and the apparent influence of relationships on decision-making, set an example that hobbles any other efforts at improving the atmosphere of the project. ___ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
