Hi there,
I'm messaging from Philadelphia, where I've been the director of a small
hackerspace named The Hacktory for a number of years. We've developed a
devoted if small following that has a good gender balance, and we continue
to attract people of different genders who value gender equality and
Welcome, Georgia. :-)
Looks interesting. I'll be sure to check it all out.
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Georgia Guthrie geor...@thehacktory.org
wrote:
Hi there,
I'm messaging from Philadelphia, where
Hi Kathleen,
I suppose you are writing about this revision (or thereabouts):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=October_(novel)direction=nextoldid=617753940
A notability tag is not a Scarlet A: it is merely a sign that the
notability of the topic hasn't been sufficiently asserted.
The
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
If you're looking to have the students engage with Wikipedia's systemic
bias, I think it might be more worthwhile to have them evaluate existing
deletion debates (and similar discussions) -- rather than having them
She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize. She is notable except
this guy thought she wasn't.The I LOVE THIS book site mean to show she also
had a general appeal.
I see how they expect so much more to justify notability for a woman of
color than a male author of potboilers.
It's
I presume that uploaders only upload images they are personally comfortable
with, so it is almost axiomatic that it would be others who would probably
add such classifications, just as occurs with movies. I have no idea how
IMDB make it work, but they do and they are using volunteers too. I note
She's an African woman. She's won Yale's big prize.
Which, as I’ve noted, wasn’t even mentioned in the article at the time the tag
was placed.
She is notable except this guy thought she wasn't.
The placing of the tag doesn’t mean (necessarily) that he doubted her
notability, as Jodi just
