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
The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to
the general Wikimania Hackathon in London.
Wikimania Hackathon information is available at
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Research Hackathon information is available at
http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist/
Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
$202,000 to address 'gender bias' in world's biggest online encyclopedia
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
Coincidentally(?) even as we're trying to get the Task Force more
This is amazing.
That's a lot of money.
Sarah
On Aug 1, 2014 6:04 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-funded-study-why-is-wikipedia-sexist/
Government-Funded Study: Why Is Wikipedia Sexist?
$202,000 to address ‘gender bias’ in world’s
It is my perspective that working through the processes on Wikipedia are
too democratic for most academics. It is easier to get a grant and become
the defacto expert than to be part of the conversation. What I went
through last week trying to get support for the South African novel,
October, by
Good points below.
Also, on the academic side I can see it is academics looking for grants.
On the govt side, I have to wonder. After all, in Wikipedia people will
fight to get articles NPOV the govt would like to see biased, like
against govt surveillance and Iran, Russia, Palestinians and
What data is there to support the claim that the majority of WP editors are
young, white, child-free men. ? The 2011 editor survey
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011
shows the majority are male, but not exactly young (although I guess it
depends what you mean by young) and
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Carol Moore dc
carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
Then I looked at this political poster image
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courageous_Cunts.jpg
which leads to this site http://courageouscunts.com/
I think nobody has bothered to write much on the
To briefly go back to what Sarah and Marie have said, I do find that in
person hand-holding and social support are the most effective factors in
getting women to stick around. I don't know how to translate that from the
real-world environment I teach newbies in to the virtual environment of new
